Belgium, June 10-16, 2008


I was invited to Université Libre de Bruxelles to give a talk.


Brussels City Hall, and reading the tourist guide.

Bruges, medieval town close to the North Sea (about 1 hour train ride from Brussels).

Bruges City Hall, with figures that were destroyed by the French then later restored.
There is now a law in Flanders that no signs can be written in French and there is an
authority you can call in to report signs in French.

A pub in Bruges with the national drink: beer. Alicia is having a Framboise, raspberry beer.

Bruges and the national dish; pommes frites with mayonnaise.