*** Did you know that January and July are the ONLY months stores are allowed to have sales for things like shoes, shirts, etc.? Apparently the government has decided it is unfair for stores to be allowed to have sales whenever they want, so they are restricted to having sales only two months of the year.
*** A noise restriction is in place in Belgium on Sundays. Noisy activies such as mowing the lawn are prohibited and can be prosecuted.
*** Nearly all clocks and measure of time here are in Navy time. Therefore, it is currently 15:50 my time. All stores signs, schedules, etc. use this method of time measurement. It's not a hard adjustment, but requires me to do more math than I'm already doing as I subtract six hours and convert Navy time! :-)
*** Throughout the Brussels, Belgium metropolitan area are a bunch of small wooded areas that were staked out by the original designer of Brussels. These little forests (and they are acres and acres... not just a little park!) were created years and years ago with a law against builing on them. So therefore, as you travel into Brussels from the outlying cities, you pass through several "jungle-like" areas between city streets, houses, stores, etc. It's unique, but kind of cool!
*** When train station drivers here go on strike, they don't not show up for work. Instead, they show up and drive their trains through the usual train routes, but don't stop at the stations to pick up or drop off passengers.
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