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We ate a lot of waffles in Belgium, and the best of them, by some distance, came from Maison Dandoy. It is one of those rare places that is both a tourist name and genuinely good, a historic Brussels house that has been making biscuits and waffles since the early nineteenth century and still does…

Brussels is the de facto capital of the European Union, and yet the quarter where the EU actually lives is one of the most overlooked corners of the city. Most tourists never make it east of the old town, which is a shame, because the EU Quarter is home to a genuinely excellent, and free,…

Some of the most famous characters in the world were born in Belgium. Tintin, the Smurfs, Lucky Luke and Spirou all came from the drawing boards of Belgian artists, and Brussels wears that heritage proudly, from a grand comic museum to dozens of giant murals painted across the city’s walls. For anyone who grew up…

Brussels has a sense of humour, and nothing sums it up better than the fact that its most famous monument is a small bronze boy having a wee. Manneken Pis is the city’s unlikely mascot, and he is not alone: a squatting girl and a cocking dog complete a trio of peeing statues hidden in…