Jolly Company
In his novel Notre Dame de Paris, published in 1831, Victor Hugo refers to the “Flemish beer swillers” in Paris at the end of the fifteenth century.
Selfie Satisfaction
Delirium Hattitude
Restaurant umbrellas, beer booth tents, and boulevardiers in front of the Brussels city hall
The Bust #1
Woman with child begging at the Beer Fest ticket line
The Bust #2
Brussels police confront the woman and her child
The Bust #3
The woman talks back
I didn't see how the incident turned out because one of the officers informed me that people are not allowed to take pictures of the police. He insisted that I should delete the pictures at once.
I deleted them as the police watched. Fortunately, like many people, they did not know the difference between delete and erase.
And so the band and the beer flowed on....
.... order prevailed....
... and Flemish folkways continue.
(Jacob Jordaens, The King Drinks, 1640)
