Snow

It snowed a lot in Brussels yesterday. Although winter is the most depressive season of the whole year as we see the sun less, and we leave work when it's pitch dark, but every year I wait for the first snow. I notice it usually comes later but this year it comes earlier than last year. I love the feeling walking under the snow, and just around the corner, there would be some musicians playing music, the smell of fresh coffee being poured out the coffee maker, the people sitting around wooden tables with their afternoon coffee/tea and cookies carrying what seems like a fun and interesting conversation or just simply taking a rest after their shoppings, the air that brushes my face is chill but pleasant. It gives a happy feeling. Anyway, we are now almost end of November and the end of year feasts keep on coming one after the other.

Beginning of this year for me was not great, but the other haft has been so far great. Projects that have not been able to carried out this year will hopefully be worked out next year-my own business for example?, and there will be a couple of travels to do, which of course, makes me quite happy.

In two weeks I guess, Brussels will start its annual Xmas market like many places in Europe, they offer almost every year the same thing but it's also an annual thing to meet with friends over hot wines, fat foods ;-) and look at the decoration in the Grand Place.

Talking about foods, recently I have been eating out quite often, and I came across a restaurant that is run by the whole family, mother, father, and two sons. Their philosophy is to offer slow food, a term that I have heard quite often lately. Slow foods, foods are cooked as they should be cooked, and the nice things about that resto is the warm, family atmosphere. People sit next to each other, looking at the other people dishes, smiling, talking about the economic crisis (should we?), what will happen next?, where the next trip will be? It's all so great! Or the African resto that runs by a big African mama (believe me you can put a glass on her butt and it will stand still, she knows it, and makes fun about it herself), I like her a lot. Her place is pretty small, what she offers is a dish per day, and the way she talks about how she makes a dish give us the envy to eat (although her chilly sauce could make your tongue completely numb) just before the dish is actually served with rice or plantain banana accompanied with a smoothie of ginger, orange, pineapple...

Why go to heaven when there are several ones on Earth? ;-)