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40 things to do in Belgium this winter

40 things to do in Belgium this winter

Art shows aplenty in Antwerp, grand masters in Liège and spicey NYE parties in Brussels. Go do the right thing this winter.

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20 things to do in Belgium this weekend

20 things to do in Belgium this weekend

Museum reopenings in Tervuren, synth-pop delights in Ghent and heartwearming heat in Brussels. Go do the right thing.

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20 things to do in Belgium this winter, with a New Year’s bonus special

20 things to do in Belgium this winter, with a New Year’s bonus special

We'll be taking a two-week break as we head into the new year - so we've prepared a hefty holiday agenda to keep you covered. Go do the right thing.

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The Holiday Spirit: 10 charities for giving

The Holiday Spirit: 10 charities for giving

We've selected 10 Belgium-based charities that are tilting the balance towards generosity and kindness for those in need, from professional mentoring schemes aimed at refugees to national animal rights charities.

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14 gift ideas for Christmas

14 gift ideas for Christmas

A selection of gift ideas to make him, her, and everyone around you happy in this end of year season.

Holiday gift guide: The Word’s Christmas wishlist

Holiday gift guide: The Word’s Christmas wishlist

We help you keep the holiday season's shopping stress levels down with this hand-picked, carefully-selected gift guide.

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Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

Our very own Christmas tree, made by our intern Raya using pages from the white album. Boom.

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The weekend 22.12

The weekend 22.12

A film festival, two exhibitions, Chilly Gonzales and the James Taylor Quartet in Brussels as well two Christmas eve parties. What to do over the holiday weekend...

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Our Christmas wish list

Our Christmas wish list

Starting today and up until Christmas eve, we’ll be putting forward two present proposals a day meant to make your end-of-year gift search that little bit easier. Today: A knitted cardigan from Henrik Vibskov and scarf by SPRB.

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Christmas kitsch – The forgotten ones

In the rush of it all, I skipped a whole set of photographs Maren had taken. A little later than expected, some more Christmas Kitsch, this time from her recent trip to Barcelona:

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Christmas Kitsch

Its been a long year, and, despite it being halved, an apparently even longer week. Stylists with egos the size of cathedrals (we won’t kick and tell), distributors who want more (not that we’d complain) and readers we disappointed (our Charleroi series seems to have rubbed one or two locals the wrong way) mean we’ve […]

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Christmas kitsch

We’ve given our new photography intern, Maren, a somewhat seasonal assignment for her first week with us: to capture the gaudy kitschiness of Christmas.  From Made in China plastic baubbles and diluted Christmas glühwein to synthetic reindeers and like-for-like window displays, we’ve given up reminiscing on the good old days of hand-knitten Christmas stockings and […]

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