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Been scratching my head about the Belgian recycling system for a week. Thanks for this simple explainer!

First rule don't go in Belgium, second rules There are no rules in Belgium. Spend your money when it worth...! Belgian are not nice people...

Thank you for this video. Still not shure where to dispose sanitary pads and facial cotton pads😅

What happens if you "break" the rules?

the true Belgian national motto is "why make it simple if you can make it overly complicated?"

love the tv stand it is just like a painting now

voel me ook meer Belg dan Vlaming nog nooit onze feestdag in Brussel gevierd zal ik toch eens moeten doen

About customer service, as a guy living and born in Brussels, I hate when employees are coming to me asking if I need some advices. If I need your help I'll ask, let me shop in peace 😅 Shopping etiquette is different in Brussels I agree

We don’t handshake people, kiss since Covid Men usually don’t kiss Not: Bruxelles born local

Interesting. I live close to Brussels. BTW Customer is the spelling you want, not costumer which is a different word

I'm so happy I found this channel! I've lived in Brussels for a year and a half and I'm still learning. But from this video it seems I'm doing quite well.

- you only kiss people you know well, or friends of friend; you would never kiss for example your boss or a shop keeper - you only kiss once, on the right cheek; three kisses is for special occasions (congratulating someone with his birthday, for example) or when you haven't seen someone in a very long time - as someone else already said: we usually don't even kiss, but touch cheeks The elevator thing is weird. I've lived in Brussels for 20 years, and I never said hi to people I don't know. Ever. Nor in my 22 years outside of Brussels. If a stranger would talk to me in a small space, I would feel threatened and think he's a creep...

I finally went to Brussels last weekend! Was my first time and we were exploring some streets of Saint-Gilles and I really liked this part. Ended the day with a great concert at Le Botanique. Het brood ziet keigoed eruit!

Really funny to see this as a Belgian 😂 the kisses are way more complicated though! We start on the right cheek, like people in Paris. (Left is for the other frenchies) And depending who you meet it is 1 or 3. Like my friends I would give a kiss with a hug. But my grandma gets 3. Some men also kiss other men. But most of them do handshakes. On birthdays we give 3. But the Pocahontas wave 👋🏼 got really popular during Covid, and it stayed. The elevator etiquette, French speaking will say bonjour. Flemish speaking will just nod. The beer thing is half true. It is more important to know how to serve a beer. If you don’t know, we are very happy to help and do it for you. Just don’t give us Heineken 😂 And don’t call them French fries! It’s just friet, frietjes or frites ❤ About the clothing, really depends your social circles and the event. But we do like the style, less is more.

Hi, I will travel to Brussels for 3days.which transport is better. And any transport plan is available.? Please help me

Good topic and well treated!

I lived in Belgium for 20 years as an Australian, I still laugh at the linguistic tensions between the Flemish and Wallons (French speaking)... I lived in Waterloo and learned Dutch in high school. I can still speak a bit of Dutch and often surprise Dutch and Belgian tourists here in Australia, I lived living in Belgium and kept good memories of it.

As a Belgian, I approve of this message (spot on on many specifics and peculiar situation). Nice ! :=D

About the lift, I don't consider it as a rule, more like an habit or just a sign of being nice, just a smile is enough sometime. To me it's more of a feeling that depend of the person who are on the lift

Poor girl, looks like the Belgian system broke her. 🤣"Don't come here thinking your gonna change things, just accept they are what they are" 🤣🤣🤣 But tbh, I think your in depth spot on on all (or at least most) of those topics.

As a Belgian it is funny to hear this. You are not wrong. Do mind: we kiss on the RIGHT cheek, not the left one. If you aim for the left cheeck and the other person is going for the right you end up kissing each other on the mouth ;) In fact, we really don't kiss on the cheeck, our right cheeks touch each other but the kiss is 'in the air', not actually on the skin.

As a Belgian from Flanders, I had no idea there was this elevator etiquette apart from acknowledging the other person but in my region, we would nog let the ladies go first or say goodbye or anything haha. That sounds very much like a french-speaking kind of thing to do, just like the kisses. I worked for a company with Walloon colleagues and every time they came over, they gave everyone three kisses and all the Flemish people were so weirded out by it every time haha. I also feel like the finding a solution for everything is a very Walloon thing too. In my experience Flanders (or at leat Antwerp) is much stricter, the rules are the rules and there is no bending the rules, which was as you say very common in my experience with Walloon colleagues at work. Loved your video! Very interesting to hear someone spell it all out haha : D

No as a flemish I would be surprised with a handshake 😅 we give one kiss on the cheeck ! But indeed you get confused in Brussels with all the different nationalities, I got unsure of the number of kisses now 😂 Your observations are spot on, I gain more awareness about my own culture!

All big cities are dirty... imo Brussels is not that bad compared to other capitals

that would cost $7500/month in New York

You must be a good observer, so on point. Apparently, we do need a law saying putting ice in your beer is grounds for immediate extradition.

This moving circus cost way to much money i say the most votes wins so i must stay in Brussels. The European parliament is already far too expensive.

Thank you VERY MUCH! This is so helpful, love your content 💕

Congrats on channel development!

Overdress to the expectations... Which expectations? With very few special exceptions it simply can't bother a Belgian how you dress, what you decide to put on your face or how you want to wear your hear. We really, really really don't give a toss at all...

Belgian here... "smalltalk isn't real our greatest strength..." oh... that has to be the understatement of the century... 😀 A lot of people are just so humble... What did you do last week-end? Oh nothing special. And when you prod a bit... I sang in my rockband, had a DJ-Stint, ran a marathon, worked on my custom 2CV, followed a course to become beersomelier, studied Hebrew,... you know... nothing special... nothing worth mentioning.

I am from Brussels and I know all those things yet I liked watching this very much :) idk why

thanks for your contribution. I have integration test next week

Concerning the level of elegance in clothing and trying to look good in general in Brussels - my wife characterized the level of elegance of women in Brussels as "dry birch". Yes, the birch, the tree. There is literally nothing that could be found particularly interesting, witty of extremely beautiful in what they put on. As if they were trying to look rather invisible than nice. Slowly fading out against the similarly faded out background. Either they do have some natural beauty or not, they never do anything to look just a little bit better even on a special day. Maybe that has something to do also with the general reluctance towards any kind of bragging, I have yet to get to understand that.

Good job! But for the greeting with a kiss, it's always on the RIGHT cheek (not the left), unless you want to fool the guy or the girl into a kiss on the lips ;)

As a Belgian living in Flanders, I can say some comments are spot on. In my opinion, Covid has totally messed up the greeting rituals. In my area it used to be 3 kisses for good friends and family. Now you just don't know anymore. I don't drink beer and I am still alive. I do like chocolate! Another good topic. On the topic of conflict : as a small country that has been invaded/ part of any other country in Europe it is in our blood to stay under the radar while trying to get away with as much as possible. And no bragging! No no no! I liked your video, Brussel is a unique city.

As a Belgian myself, I would wait for my friend(s) outside of the restaurant. I prefer if we choose our spot together :)

About conflicts, i heard studies linking it to belguim being in the conflict zone between Germanis and Romanic culture, and very often border between -> france/ holy roman empire aka later Germany mostly.. If not somewhat diplomatic and conflict avoiding, chances were pretty big that at some (temp) occupation again, you would be killed by the occupyer.. so you could also argue that caused some natural selections at being able to do okay in clashing ideas and visions. Witch also helps explain the relative high number of Belgians in europe historical diplo functions :-). We are just best abled to she both a Germanic and Romanic culture vissions, since we are the only , before belguim existed region in europe where those overlap so much. We are about the only country being, in as well language as culture, romsnic snd germanic at the same time

Hello, also an Evelyne here, but I'm from Leuven. There's no such thing as too much cats. You can stack at least 7 on that cat tree behind you. 😉 The question is rather, do you have time for them? I'm a big fan of Jackson Galaxy from the television program 'My Cat From Hell' and he does advise to play a lot with your cats. Most cats love the catnip toys from 'Yeowww'.

I don't know where you get the "girls get priority in elevators" idea. If you can afford the time to wait, you allow both men and women to enter the elevator before you do. If you don't have the time it is still considered good manners to at least give prioriry to people without the capacity to use stairs (disabled, elderly, pregnant, cyclists, people with suitcases, ...). If it is clear to a girl that you only do this for women, it is considered either patronising (you consider them either disabled or old), creepy or outright menacing (you are making them pass you into an enclosed space), especially if you then enter right behind them in front of other people. A big no-no.

Hi, nice to hear your thoughts of how we interact here in Belgium. I work as a broadcast engineer. My home is near Antwerp, my office is located near Brussels (as are all broadcast-related facilities :-) A couple of weeks ago I was on assignment in Denmark to engineer in the TV-coverage of the Tour of Denmark cycling event for Dansk Radio. Such a lovely bunch of people to work with! I thoroughly enjoyed my tour of duty in Denmark. Lovely country, lovely people.

i got the same kinda rack for shoes in the hallway and as you say it i agree. it sometimes smells a bit. you got a cosy appartment.

Nice collection of bass guitars!

Also about beers: pour them in the right glasses.

As a Belgian living in the French part in Brabant Wallon , man greet with a kiss as well. If you met for the first time it's hand shake but if you know them well it's a kiss . All my male friends that I know well we greet by a kiss. Great Video.

all big cities with transient workers has this friends problem. It ebbs and flows, sometimes you find friends moving to the city and other times you get friends and then you are leaving.

funny I discovered this..greetings from a Dutch guy living in Brussels

Sometimes it's good to be "the foreigner" in a group. It means my social mistakes are more likely to be explained away by my nationality and thus forgiven!

I never knew Evelien (spelled that way) was a Danish name too.