Tag: wallonie
Marche of the Beez
A walk in Wallonie with two places of interest differently affected by the French Revolution.
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.
Maredsous 10°
3/5. Less enamoured of this now than before. Plenty of caramel, cloves, baking and fruit flavours in there.
Ellezelloise Hercule Stout
5/5. A stout and one of my personal favourites. Rich flavours including coffee, cigars and licorice.
Abbaye des Rocs Brune
4/5. Looking almost like a red wine, intense and complex aroma is intense. Dry taste with only very slight bitterness and packed with caramel.
Chimay Bleue
4/5. Flavours include brown sugar, raisins, toffee and lots of pepper. Strong alcohol is well masked and warming.
Rochefort 10°
5/5. One of the last genuine Trappist beers, this is one of Belgium’s most famous beers. Figgy, dark and subtle.
St Feuillien Brune
4/5. Tasty brown ale with a rich, red brown colour. Full-bodied with fruity, woody flavours and a slightly dry finish.
Orval
3/5. Dark and fizzy, unexpectedly light and bitter. Flavours include grass, orange peel and grapefruit.
‘Twixt two regions
Through the borderlands between Hainaut and Oost-Vlanderen and beside the Marcq-Mark river.
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Ourthe Valley
Bright autumn colours deep in the folds of the Ardennes.
- Originally published: 1 Nov 2009 in Walking
Proper ASBO
I heard on the radio about the latest figures for those of the nation’s youth in receipt of an ASBO (Anti-Social Behaviour Order for those of you who don’t read the panic papers). Fancy a look at the wastrels in your area? Check them out. They ought to get the old buffers at the Daily …
- Originally published: 1 Jul 2005 in Personalia
Granada and the Alhambra
Find a corner away from the mass of tourists and imagine yourself here in the fifteenth century.
- Originally published: 14 Apr 2008 in Architecturetitle_li=Europe
Eastbourne
What better to way to experience summer on the English South Coast than with some classic English summer weather.
- Originally published: 5 Jun 2007 in UK
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.
- Originally published: 24 May 2010 in Walking
Stop ACTA!
A privately-negotiated international trade agreement that's anti-sharing, anti-privacy and anti-democratic.
Let's put a stop to ACTA.
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 as those guys. I'm a user experience consultant, expatriate, traveller, writer and pro cycling enthusiast.
I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert. I started my website in 2005 and I've been running it ever since.
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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.