Hi Graham, great photo, looks like you've just been let out of Winson Green, ha, and when I look in the mirror, I see some old guy thats looks a little like me, but as I remember I used to say, its the beauty on the inside thats important, the beauty on the out side changes .
and as you say Belgium is a great place to live, and for me just living next door, its just an hours drive and I'm there, true, Belgium is a great place,and the people are friendly, but I think it helps when you can speak the language, ( Flaams/French ) my French is passable, but my Dutch could be better, but I think France is a nice place to live, ( if you make an effort to learn the language ), when you can, lots of doors open for you,
I think we both made a good choose when we moved to Europe, we both live a good life better than we would have ever done in Balsall Heath,, maybe we would have ened up in some high rise flats wishing we could have done better, I think as an expat we are a special breed who want to see whats on the other side of the hill, well we found out did'nt we, and it was worth all the effort....John ( a man from another time )