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July 22, 2026 / 4 Comments

Floraliën Ghent – Aunt Anna botanizes at the flower festival

Writer: Anna Nilsson Spets

If you are planning to visit the beautiful medieval city of Ghent in Belgium, you can try to book an event that takes place every four years, in May: Floraliën Ghent.

27 May 2026 / 8 Comments

Belgian Food – 20 Classic Dishes to Try

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Text and photo: Anna Nilsson Lace

Instead of Helena writing about food here, Aunt Anna will write about the food in her home country. What we eat here in Belgium can be summed up in a few words; lots of meat, fatty and sweet in various combinations.

April 28, 2026 / 4 Comments

Groot-Bijgarden in Belgium – Aunt Anna in a world of colors

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Writer: Anna Nilsson Spets

You don't have to go to Holland to see tulips from Amsterdam... My work friend Kristel and I meet up with my daughter Emma who came to visit her elderly mother in Belgium.

09 April 2025 / 6 Comments

Aunt Anna is (almost) travelling to Japan - the Japanese garden in Hasselt, Belgium

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Writer: Anna Nilsson Spets

No, I have never been to Japan and probably never will, if only to see the snow monkeys.

25 March 2025 / 2 Comments

Limburg in Belgium - Aunt Anna and the Spirits

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Writer: Anna Nilsson Spets

In Belgium, the country where I have lived for almost 16 years, the country is divided into ten provinces. I live on the border between two; Antwerp and Limburg.

31 October 2024 / 4 Comments

Christmas in Belgium - Aunt Anna refuses Christmas

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Writer: Anna Nilsson Spets

The big event of the autumn in Belgium, or at least the most expensive, was the Pope's visit to the country. It was over in a couple of days and included four minutes of dialogue with sexually abused victims within the Catholic Church. Four minutes ...

22 September 2024 / 12 Comments

The life and times of Aunt Anna in Belgium

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Writer: Anna Nilsson Spets

Many people wonder what it's like to live in another country, are you and will you remain Swedish?

16 May 2024 / 0 Comments

Aunt Anna at the Royal Central African Museum Tervuren, Belgium

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Writer: Anna Nilsson Spets

Belgium, the country where I have lived for 15 years, has a sad piece of colonial history in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, then the Belgian Congo.

23 April 2024 / 2 Comments

Postel in Belgium - Aunt Anna enters a convent

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Writer: Anna Nilsson Spets

In Catholic Belgium there are many monasteries that are well worth visiting. Here we say abbey, and how to explain the difference between that and a monastery would take far too long. Most of our abbeys welcome visitors, have guided tours and beautiful hiking trails around them.