Seven Generational Ruminations

In March this year I visited Belgium, Brussels specifically, and had an interesting experience. Besides Brussels being a fabulous city, capital city of the European Union, the very first person I talked with was the taxi driver taking me from the airport to my hotel. While that might seem an unimportant detail, that taxi driver immediately launched into telling me about two things. First it was the superiority of Belgium beer (German beer is too watery), and the 4000 year history of the Walloon's and how Belgium is really two countries joined together as one.