Delius Diaries
Our Expat Life
Travel and family blog.
Follow The Delius Family adventures as we navigate living in Europe, raising our teenage son and advancing Freedom.
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2025 was the Christmas of new experiences and “things”. A quick mention of the “things” will lead to the important part of our Christmas. This was the year of the beanie, angel and village. Between the three of us, we gifted each other 10 beanies. It’s something that happened organically over the weeks leading to…
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I have mentioned the NATO International Club in previous posts. During the wine tour, I overheard several ladies ask about “the American Thanksgiving”…what is this Thanksgiving? What do you do? What happens and what do you eat, etc. So it gave me an idea to host a Thanksgiving lunch for NIC ladies. And today (Wednesday…
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An hour’s drive outside of Brussels is Flanders Field, an American WWI cemetery. The local scouting troops lead the ceremony honoring the fallen on this day of remembrance. I had the privilege of being escorted by two uniformed handsome men, Scott in is Army uniform and Connor in his Boy Scout uniform. Armistice Day in…
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What a fun and special evening we had celebrating the 250th birthday of our U.S. Marines! We packed up and spent Saturday night south of Brussels in a chateau on the lake. The area was beautiful, the chateau was a little run down but a great spot for the party. This was Connor’s first black…
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We flew from Brussels to Nice, an easy flight. The Brussels airport is modern and nice, although it has only one entrance which means you must enter through the smoking gauntlet, not our favorite by any means. In Brussels after going through bag check and security, you look at the boards to determine your flight’s…
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Summer 2025, the second half, was full of go go go travel and exploration. As this information is 6-8 weeks behind us now, I am going relive our travels and make a post for each destination, as they each were so different. Since Connor didn’t start school until the end of August, we had almost…
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We celebrated Scott’s birthday this weekend in Brussels. We had a few surprises for him including a Ferrari F8 driving experience and a beer and cheese lunch. An hour south of Brussels is an F1 circuit track where you can drive F1 race cars. Connor picked the car, wishing he was old enough to drive…
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Parent/teacher conferences were Thursday last week. The conferences are different at Connor’s school, maybe this is what they do in Europe, not sure. Instead of teachers meeting with parents to give an update, the teacher meets with the student via zoom with parents attending but clearly not the main player. It was an interesting dynamic,…
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We took an overnight trip to Tongeren, Belgium, 75 minutes from Brussels. Tongeren is the oldest city in Belgium dating back to the 1st century BC, part of the Roman Empire. Given its history, it is apropos that it hosts a weekly Sunday antique market on Sundays 7am-1pm. A true brocante with hundreds of dealers…
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Today I went on a bike ride around the general area in which we live. It’s a combination of suburbia and city fringe inter-mixed with beautiful countryside and farms. Always something unique to see in this area of Brussels. Today was a high of 60 with no rain, lots of clouds with the sun poking…
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