Every morning at the Crèmerie de Linkebeek, they throw sawdust on the floor. It absorbs the moisture people track in from outdoors, and it simplifies the end-of-day cleaning while minimising detergent use. But even more important than that: it’s always been done.
A strange old man with a big white beard, smelling slightly of the sea, will follow you around Flanders this year. It is 150 years since the painter James Ensor was born, and he is everywhere.