Did You Know That...

･  the city of Brussels is only one of the 19 municipalities - aka communes in the locally spoken Franglais (some weird mixture of French and English) - of the Brussels Capital Region (BCR)
･  each municipality has its own mayor and its own administration
･  Brussels-City has a little over 165,000 inhabitants (on January 1st 2011) and counts 163 different nationalities
･  the BCR has over 1.1 million inhabitants
･  the official languages of the BCR are Dutch and French, but you can hear anything from Arabic to Welsh (that is, if you know what any of the spoken languages round here sound like!)

Enough now! We do not want to scare you away with a full statistical fact sheet on Brussels! (You can find that here.) However, there is one more thing we would like to say before we kick off and start reporting on our adventures:

Welcome to our ･ b r u s s e l e n ･ blog!