in response to the comments posted on my last entry...

yep Belgium is right below The Netherlands and the top half of the country (the 'flemish' part) speaks dutch (they call it flemish - but it's a mutually understandable dialect of dutch). The southern part of Belgium is French-speaking and a small area in the east speaks german. My girlfriend (and all her family) are flemish so i'm attempting to learn the languge... even though she is fluent in english (and french and german)... bloody multi-lingual europeans - they put us all to shame!