Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Leuven, 25 km from Brussels
No big adventures for two weeks now. Just a tiny adventure last weekend (June 11). Rode to Leuven. Home to the largest brewery in the world, Stella Artois, and others. Also the home of Gerardus Mercator, the cartographer.
To maintain the cultural heritage of the Belgian Friterie there are regulations demanding where fries can be sold. An establishment can sell fries only if they are a friterie - a stand alone fry shop that also sells some other fried foods and drinks, or a full resturant. Pubs and cafes, that do not have food service are not allowed to sell fries. So it is common to go to a sqaure that will have a friterie and a pub or two around the square will allow you to bring in food from these friteries so that they do not have to provide full food service.
Everything is World Cup around here. They leave work early on days that teams represented by the office are playing. I even have to schedule meetings next week to work with the games. You can tell traffic is really quiet during games. Belgium, like Canada doesn't have a team in it.
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To maintain the cultural heritage of the Belgian Friterie there are regulations demanding where fries can be sold. An establishment can sell fries only if they are a friterie - a stand alone fry shop that also sells some other fried foods and drinks, or a full resturant. Pubs and cafes, that do not have food service are not allowed to sell fries. So it is common to go to a sqaure that will have a friterie and a pub or two around the square will allow you to bring in food from these friteries so that they do not have to provide full food service.
Everything is World Cup around here. They leave work early on days that teams represented by the office are playing. I even have to schedule meetings next week to work with the games. You can tell traffic is really quiet during games. Belgium, like Canada doesn't have a team in it.
# posted by Us : 9:19 a.m.
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