Recent content by mikehayes

I found out why addresses are concealed: selling agents are afraid they will be cut-out of the deal. It's an illegitimate fear, because they only need to write their contract of service properly. Anyway, as a matter of principle, I am ignoring ~95% of the houses for sale, and only considering...

Thanks Sparkey.. that site is quite useful.

In case anyone else tries to find light weight ways to ship beer, Kegkeg supplies cardboard kegs to roughly ~20 Belgian breweries. However, they're less popular because they're more expensive than metal kegs. The 20 liter keykegs are more rare than the 30 liter ones, and so a min order of...

I would like to know what Belgian dark beers are (and are not) exported to the U.S. The plan is to travel to the US, and make sure none of the precious little airline weight allowance is wasted on beer that's already shipped there. I know Chimey Blue is available in the U.S. Has anyone...

I tried the strategy of appearing at 11am, and was sent away. They said they "ran out of numbers" for the day for the particular task I needed. So in the end it actually makes sense to flood in with the crowd in the morning.

French classes tend to be advertised as the "full immersion" style of teaching. I would be interested in finding non-immersion French classes, where some of the instruction is in English, at least initially.

I notice the brussels commune floods with people before they open, with residents competing for low numbers. Is the early rush just people needing to get to work? Is service quicker when arriving later, like 11am?

How often are moderated posts approved? I posted a reply in this thread roughly 2 weeks ago -- it still has not appeared.

Something like this would perhaps be ideal, if it can be ~20 kg.

With overseas shipping costs so high, it hardly makes sense to ship glass bottles of beer. Is there any way to buy good beer (e.g. Rochfort 10) in a plastic bottle? Or perhaps a thin walled keg that has been crated?

I bought a mobile phone from a vendor with sites all over the EU, where the manufacturer is UK-based, and the product shipped from the UK. It came with no warranty statement. Does this mean I automatically get a generous 6 year implied UK warranty? Or is the warranty based on where it was...

This is what appears for property location on immoweb.be: "1000i-:Bruxelles...

Out of curiosity, do you also oppose separation of church and state? It's rational to oppose homosexual legal marriage, but only if you also oppose heterosexual legal marriage.

Business is a specialty of some schools in Brussels, IIRC. For intl business, brussels is the first place I would check. As far as language goes, apart from UK cities, you will not find an easier city to speak English in than Brussels. I'm not sure about the classes though. I have heard that...

Definitely get out of the US, for a change. Where you go doesn't matter so much, but good choices for you would be netherlands, belgium, canada, spain, and new zealand. Choose your career, then pick a university in one of those countries that suits your industry. Antwerp, Belgium would be a...