I could probably give a longer list, but the 3 I want to mention really make me happy. It's something I have noticed since day one, something that calms me and makes me think this city is special.
Number 1 - plenty of roses. everywhere you look there's a rose garden, either a public space, the entrance of an apartment building, the front lawn of someone's private home, often they just grow wild, next to a tree in the middle of a sidewalk. Additional plus, they smell. The ones in The Netherlands never smelled. God knows I searched and searched up and down the bloemenmarkt, and all the flower shops of the Jordaan...
Number 2 - brids singing. For the moment we live in a place not too far away from the Council and Commission, so it's not literally in the centre, but it's still central Brussels. It's a jogging 7 minutes away from the Berlaymont. Our windows do go out to an interior courtyrard rather then the busy street, but still, we are right on a busy road. And I hear birds all day long. How perfect:)
Number 3 - so many people jog. The Cinquantenaire is almost always filled with joggers. It gives me a feeling of a city full of people who care about their health and fitness. Plus they're omnipresence gives me a healthy peer pressure, not to be any worse.
For the moment those 3 suffice, for a 1st month's summary:)
Number 1 - plenty of roses. everywhere you look there's a rose garden, either a public space, the entrance of an apartment building, the front lawn of someone's private home, often they just grow wild, next to a tree in the middle of a sidewalk. Additional plus, they smell. The ones in The Netherlands never smelled. God knows I searched and searched up and down the bloemenmarkt, and all the flower shops of the Jordaan...
Number 2 - brids singing. For the moment we live in a place not too far away from the Council and Commission, so it's not literally in the centre, but it's still central Brussels. It's a jogging 7 minutes away from the Berlaymont. Our windows do go out to an interior courtyrard rather then the busy street, but still, we are right on a busy road. And I hear birds all day long. How perfect:)
Number 3 - so many people jog. The Cinquantenaire is almost always filled with joggers. It gives me a feeling of a city full of people who care about their health and fitness. Plus they're omnipresence gives me a healthy peer pressure, not to be any worse.
For the moment those 3 suffice, for a 1st month's summary:)
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