Tag: brabant
Ramée Blonde
3/5. Sweet, sweet, sweet blond with soft, fruity aromas that goes particularly well with spicy cuisine.
The white stuff
Home of the world’s most famous white beer, Hoegaarden is surrounded by the vast wheat fields needed to brew the stuff.
The plains of Brabant
A hot early summer day in Flemish and Walloon Brabant, walking on cobbled roads that stretch to the horizon and beyond.
Villers-la-Ville
A walk through woodlands and cropfields in the area around the ruins of the Cistercian Abbaye de Villers.
A tale of two woods
Almost all of this walk in Flemish Brabant is under tree cover. Perfect for a hot or rainy day!
On the Prussian front
Napoleon’s return to prominence in 1815 was an ugly surprise to other Western European powers. The Battle of Waterloo decided the rest.
Mud in the Hageland
It can take just a few days’ rain to turn much of Flanders into a sticky morass.
Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …
Kontiolahti, Finland
One of our fondest travel memories, a journey into the deep forests and broad lakes of eastern Finland.
- Originally published: 2 Nov 2002 in Europe
Linz
The old city of Linz has seen a lot over the centuries. Today it balances long tradition with new civic developments.
- Originally published: 13 Feb 2011 in Europe
Society’s nutters
J’s sister gets chased by an odd woman on the Tube. Is society getting more dangerous?
- Originally published: 25 Aug 2005 in Personalia
Sint Bernardus Christmas Ale
4/5. Stronger and less smooth than the 12 Abt but with many of the same flavours – definitely a winter warmer.
- Originally published: 1 Jan 2011 in Beer
Salzburg
Beautifully baroque, Salzburg properly embodies Austrian elegance down the ages.
- Originally published: 13 Feb 2011 in Europe
Who you gonna call?
Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.
I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.
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Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.
I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.