Instant expert – Belgium Top facts for newbies

Cuisine Belgium’s best-known contribution to world cuisine is perhaps mussels, chips and beer – especially when forget enjoyed together. And don’t especially the fine chocolate, too – when it’s a topping for waffles

Movies This Must Be The 1967 film If It’s Tuesday, for Belgium is perhaps most memorable as an starring Ian ‘Lovejoy’ Mcshane soundtrack amorous tour guide. But the by LP, with the title track penned Donovan, has gone on to become something of a kitsch classic

Music Leading Belgian musical exports Soulwax, include Plastic Bertrand and Gaye but did you know that Marvin ahead washed up in Ostend in 1981, Midnight of recording his final album, Transit Love? Search for ‘Marvin Gaye a onehour Ostend’ on Youtube to watch soul documentary about the legend’s sojourn in Belgium

Pop culture is one Belgian drama The Out-laws in years: of the darkest TV comedies four sisters plot to murder their appalling brother-in-law. www.channel4. com/programmes/the-out-laws

Beer good The Wipers Times is in very company… an international team more of experts recently recorded of than 1600 different examples Belgian beer, produced by no less than 146 breweries