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Time warp // À la Bécasse
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I was a Zinnebir Man // The Session #144
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I'm Glad - The Session 2025
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A New Year's Beer
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🎅NEW POST🎅 Kicking off the Christmas season with a visit to the most Christmassy pub in Brussels - Le Saint Nicolas. Link + details in bio!
WE MADE A ZINE! The excellent @selkies_ and I are launching our zine about Brussels’ best cafés at the @lordbyronbxl on December 11. Extremely limited edition - and when I a gone, it’s gone, and perfect as a stocking-filler! Det
📨Brussels Notes #71: Election Day - a Sunday disrupted This week's newsletter, where I try to guess how my neighbours are going to vote Link in bio
Brussels Notes #70: The Tragedy of the Communes I’m sick of election flyers defending the “village” nature of one or other bit of Brussels. Brussels is a big city, and it’s time politicians started governing it like one. En
📨This week’s newsletter Brussels Notes #69: When the pope came to Koekelberg (yes, the actual pope) 🔗 link in bio
📨 Brussels Notes #68: September is a Dead Month I took a walk in the local abandoned cemetery and it preyed on my melancholy. The result is a short text about why I always associate September with death, & death’s role in how I came to
Had a couple of Wednesday night beers Came up with a new way to measure gentrification in Brussels: The Zinnebir Index 🍺 Link in bio 🔗
Did a bit of accidental urban exploration in a Molenbeek gasworks. Found out I’m a bad UrbEx-er 📨”Brussels Notes #66: Urban Exploring in Molenbeek - Dreamed a dream by the gasworks wall” Link in bio 🔗