Huge Renovation

Guest post written by my buddy Aldo Mays

My husband and I have been renovating our home, and living in an apartment nearby. The house hadn’t been changed at all since the 1970’s and it was time for a huge overhaul. We’re excited about what the results will be, but there are so many worries that go along with such a huge undertaking. We are really scared that our home will become a target for thieves since it is obvious the house is unoccupied and under construction. We wanted to know what the best Atlanta home security was, so we started doing research. We knew we needed a home alarm system since we had all of these expensive appliances in the house that hadn’t been installed yet. Those appliances cost us a lot of money, and we weren’t willing to risk it. We knew that if anything happened to them we wouldn’t be able to afford to buy them again. We feel much better now that we have an alarm system set up. We should be able to get back in the house in a few months, and can’t wait to see the final results.

My Dream Trip to Europe part 6

From Luxembourg we had to Belgium. I would go pretty much straight to Brussels. There are some websites that say that some of the cities are not as safe as they were in years past so it is probably best to just see the capital since of course security is always best in a capitol city.

My ideas of what to do in Belgium revolves primarily around chocolate and beer. Not necessarily in that order. Belgium lays claim to the invention of the praline in 1912. Probably the best place for various choices of chocolates is Maison des Maitres Chocolatiers on the Grand Place. There 10 separate Chocolatiers in this location and this part of the trip is probably not going to one of moderation.

The beer of course is to die for and what I look forward to are the beers made in monasteries and abbeys by monks using techniques and recipes that are centuries old and reportedly as good as anything you can get anywhere. Some of them are exported but due to the stupid laws we have in this country about beer I would not want to bet that anything I can find here in Pennsylvania will be anything even vaguely close to what it tastes like in Belgium.

Chocolate and beer are the 2 biggies for me in Belgium but there are some other things. Strangely enough for a country with a relatively small coastline the national dish is mussels which makes me very happy. Apparently they do mussels and chips just as the English do fish and chips and I am certainly looking forward to that.

Then there is the Belgian waffle. Not just a ploy made up by US marketers. Waffles are also a very important food in Belgium and can be gotten very conveniently because they are done not only in restaurants but also by street vendors and from my experiences in New York and also in Manila, I am a big fan of street vendors.

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