Hanging out with the cool people

Last week saw the launch of The Word’s “The White Album” – The word is a cool lifestyle magazine which is created here in Brussels by Nicolas and his great team. Alpha male is working with Nicolas (on the business side of the magazine) and of course we go to the launch/release parties. It is always fun – a lot of the people we meet – frankly we only see at those parties, so it is a great way of catching up. The locations are always different (think shops which have been empty for a while, empty galleries… even an underground park-car and a school). And the people attending are cool (granted there are a few “normal un-cool” like me) but it makes great venues for people watching: at the party in the underground parking ground we are two floors underground it is 2 in the morning in comes a man in top-to-toe leather, huge “the fly” like sunglasses and what can only be described as woman’s maxibag! A lot of the people are professional creative so journalist, artists, photographers, film makers – and very cool! For last week’s party we had been a bit unprepared as in not having arranged for somebody to mind our son, so we decided to go a bit earlier than usual and bring him along. On the way there we were lucky enough to stumble over a new burger restaurant in Brussels (Ellis Gourmet Burgers) which provided us the perfect fuel stop – and comes highly recommended.

Arriving at the party son gets totally in to the vibe – and I think we get some extra cool points as parents, for introducing him to all the cool people. And as usual the magazine is great.

Graduation

Last month I graduated from the International Management Program I have been doing the last year at Vlerick. I really enjoyed the program and met a bunch of great people – and I am happy to say many Belgians – most of our friends are ex-pats. We had a great evening – maybe a bit too much wine ….