Search results
Sort results
Select author
Refine search results
Select genre
Select tag
Heisteeg is a Microcosm of Amsterdam
24 November 2021
With the solid citizens in one café, the radicals in the opposite bar and the confused tourists in between, Heisteeg in the centre of Amsterdam can be seen as a microcosm of the whole city.
Café Vlissinghe, Possibly the Oldest Pub in Belgium
11 October 2021
It is the oldest café in Bruges. Possibly the oldest in Belgium. Opened in the same year Thomas More visited Bruges, Café Vlissinghe has survived wars, revolutions, and hordes of British tourists. And now it has come back from the dead following a global pandemic.
Football Fans and a Farting Dog
3 June 2020
One of Amsterdam’s oldest brown cafés, De Engelbewaarder (The Guardian Angel), is located on the first floor of a canal house, reached up a steep flight of old stone steps. The wooden floors creak as you enter. A song by Tom Waits plays in the background. It feels like coming home.
In Praise of Old Flemish Cafés
5 March 2020
Old-fashioned pubs where locals gather to enjoy a drink. Flemings call them volkscafés (people’s cafés) or bruine kroegen (brown cafés). But these genuine cafés, so typical for Flanders, are a dying breed. Derek Blyth urges you to visit them, while you still have the chance. ‘These cafés ar