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Leo Cendrowicz
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Brussels correspondent, i newspaper
Editor of The Brussels Times Magazine
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And if you’re already decking the halls, Geoff Meade has a timely warning about premature tinsel.
Saint Nicholas first. Sparkles later.
November 26, 2025 at 6:42 AM
🍷🍺🥂 @maajtee.bsky.social and Hughes Belin write about Belgian wine while Angela Dansby takes a restorative beer-and-baroque weekend in Leuven.

Plus events worth checking out, and the winning story from the Writers Festival of Belgium 2025.
November 26, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Seeing Belgium anew:
• The earliest Belgian photographs
• Eliane Van den Ende on Zwanze: Brussels’ untranslatable humour and mischief
• Hugh Dow on Saint-Josse’s melancholy cemeteries
@dominiquesoenens.bsky.social meets artist Arne Quinze
November 26, 2025 at 6:42 AM
We find stories in unexpected corners:
• Lisa Bradshaw on a Magritte-inspired whodunnit
• Simon Taylor on new wave of Belgian bands
• Helen Fry on the Belgian spies who helped win two world wars
• Liz Newmark on the railways that didn’t
• Jon Eldridge on the ultra-runners pushing the limits
November 26, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Also in our magazine, we have Brussels in flux:
• Anas El Baye meets Fouad Ahidar, the politician shaking the Brussels establishment
• Philippe Van Parijs on why gridlock = success
@goodclimate.bsky.social on Jean Delhaye, the unsung hero who saved Art Nouveau
November 26, 2025 at 6:42 AM
✨ The new issue of @brusselstimes.com Magazine is out!
From football revolutions to foreign-policy, surreal whodunnits to cemeteries, spies to wine, ultrarunners to Art Nouveau heroes, this small country contains big dramas.
Read, roam and stay curious.
November 26, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Angela Dansby takes a weekend trip to the many-towered Tournai, Hugh Dow visits Ixelles cemetery, Breandán Kearney looks at some of the more obscure beers that deserve more recognition, and Geoff Meade grapples with post-Brexit pet bureaucracy.
September 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This issue isn’t only about animals:

@goodclimate.bsky.social‬ finds out about recent archaeological excavations in Brussels.
Lisa Bradshaw talks to Maja-Ajmia Yde Zellama about her movie Têtes Brûlées.
Simon Taylor meets influential DJ Lefto.
And Colin Delfosse shows us real muscle building.
September 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
We also explore rescue pets, alpaca walks, cow cuddling and how Brussels deals with rats. Sometimes, wildlife is right under our noses. 🐀🦙🐄🐈
Beyond fur & feathers: medieval manuscripts show cheeky rabbits running amok in sacred texts. 📜🐇
September 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Belgian zoos showcase creatures from faraway lands. 🐼 Pairi Daiza has pandas in a former abbey; Antwerp Zoo balances august heritage with modern needs. Both try to keep animals in a respectful living culture.
September 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
In this issue we check out:
🐕 🦮🐕‍🦺 🐩Malinois, Tervuren, Bouvier and bichon frisé dogs
🐴 Brabant draft horses
🐄 Belgian Blue cows
🐔 Mechelse Koekoek/Coucou de Malines chickens
🐇 Flemish Giant rabbits
🐦 Belgian canaries
It’s a true menagerie!
September 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
From parachuting dogs to musclebound cows, from mammoths to pig-sized rabbits, Belgian fauna tells stories of work, pride, art & survival.
We start off in the Institute of Natural Sciences. Among the dino bones are the remains of (perhaps) the world’s first dog – and he’s Belgian!
🦖🦣🦴
September 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The latest @BrusselsTimes.com Magazine is out now
🇧🇪🐾 Animals – wild, domestic, mythical – have always been part of the Belgian story. For this issue, we hear them bark, purr, moo and tweet.
Cover art by @lectrr.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Robert Redford, 1936-2025
September 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
In this chaotic and scary world, we need good news stories.
Today, US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was at the Port of Antwerp, with Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever.
Noem was introduced to one of the port's Malinois dogs.
The good news? The dog still lives.
September 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Until the next time, #Tirana
August 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Rock on Ksamil beach in Albania looks like a face
August 14, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Smoke from wildfire in Delvina, Albania rising behind Saranda. Corfu is on the left.
August 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Smoke from wildfire in Delvina, Albania rising behind Saranda. Corfu is on the left.
August 13, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Fires spread across the mountains near Saranda, Albania
August 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Fascinated by the relief carvings - attributed to Renaissance sculptor Tullio Lombardo - around Saint Anthony’s tomb in Padua
August 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Love the paving stones in Rovinj
August 1, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Charming Ljubljana’s quirky architecture
July 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Science is never just about equations.
It's a conversation across borders, and across time.
It’s about who we become when we unlock the atom – and what we choose to do next. Sometimes the quietest rooms – like those of Solvay – echo the loudest truths. 🇧🇪💣🧠
July 21, 2025 at 7:20 AM
From bomb-builder to philosopher of science, Oppenheimer’s Solvay appearances traced the arc of a brilliant, conflicted life.
His legacy wasn’t only written in New Mexico deserts. It was debated in Brussels’ salons - in the magnificent Solvay library, where minds shaped the modern world.
July 21, 2025 at 7:20 AM