As the number of shopping days before Christmas dwindles, fear not if those stockings are looking a little sparse. Here’s our 11th-hour guide Younger children To offset the plastic invasion of giant toy stores, many parents prefer to shop around for wooden and other handmade toys, and there are a...
The final part in our series on yuletide festivities around the country - December 14 The spiritual home of Christmas markets in Europe is Germany, where the tradition goes back to the Middle Ages. And in the eastern cantons of Belgium nearly every town stages wonderful German-influenced events...
Chocolate, beer and witloof – Lille and Brussels have more in common than meets the eye If only Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s vice had been chocolate... He could have left his suite in the Hotel Carlton, sauntered across Lille’s Grand Place and found complete satisfaction among the dark, milky and fruit...
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