In Travel: Rock Werchter, Couleur Café, and the sights of Flanders, Belgium

By Jeremy D. Larson on July 11th, 2012

As you do when you break free from the tethers of email, I left an auto-away message on my Gmail that read, “I am in Belgium of all places”. When I arrived in Belgium, I met with Tom Pieters who was organizing my stay through Tourism Flanders. “I noticed your auto-reply message. Why did you say ‘of all places’?” It was hard to convey to him what was both a little joke and my thoughts on Belgium pre-visit.