At the great extremes of Belgian commercial culture we have:

embarassingly poor customer service AND
The planet's best beer!
(which in some ways softens frustration with the former)

This following article, which examines the latter, link-connects to a front page story in last week's Wall Street Journal (US edition):

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB119...5032008897.html

Happy Holidays from Ixelles.......

to all my Flemish and Wallonian friends
(buy each other a beer and relax)

WESTVLETEREN, Belgium

really famous place....