Équipe Éditoriale — contributor at Metis Maven. European editorial platform for travel, mobility and style.
This week, three people told me they no longer eat meat, each for a different reason. I love meat. Here is a respectful case for chosen meat: ethical, delicious and nourishing.
Near Porte de Namur, Elbow brings a New York lunch counter to Brussels. Open kitchen, welcoming stools and remarkable pastrami: why I keep returning.
On 19 September 2026, Hangar transformed Place Poelaert into a monumental open-air dancefloor for Solomun. Invited by TheMerode, I witnessed Brussels celebrate its newly revealed Palace of Justice faç
On 13 September 2026, I listened to Matthieu Ricard discuss happiness and altruism inside Brussels’ Villa Empain. A first-person account — and the full story of the scientist, monk, photographer and h
Two countries, two philosophies, one stubborn fact: Switzerland and Japan are the only nations able to build an entire watch — down to the hairspring and the oil — without depending on anyone. History
Between the Knokke sea dyke and the Zwin meadows, a crown of white antennas sits in the middle of a stubble field. Almost nobody notices it, yet hundreds of aircraft line up on it every day. Portrait
They are green, they are everywhere, and almost nobody knows their story: after the siege of Paris, an English milord paid out of his own pocket for a network of free drinking water for the poor. A hu
Since 1998 a masked artist has been cementing pixel mosaics onto the walls of Paris. There are now more than 1,500 of them in the capital, turned into a worldwide hunting game by an app. The history,
A day of business meetings in Paris, and one striking realisation: wherever you start, it takes thirty minutes. The story of a city crossed between appointments — metro corridors, the Louvre courtyard
Arriving a day before a run of business meetings, I spent a late-August Sunday walking Canal Saint-Martin and Bassin de la Villette. Locks, the Rotonde, street art, Paris Plages and an urban swim-and-