21st July is Belgium National Day
Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, my sweet little pocket handkerchief 
Excerpt from Wikipedia:
11,787 sq m, 3 official languages : Dutch, French,German, population +/- 11,350,000.
Coat of arms :
Motto :
"Eendracht maakt macht" (Dutch)
"L'union fait la force" (French)
"Einigkeit macht stark" (German)
"Unity makes Strength"
Anthem, I picked this video because the anthem is translated :
A few pics and videos of our National Day :
EU Council greetings in a short video with a brief timeline of Belgium history :
Crowd Belgian Royal Place :
Grand Place by night :
Flower Carpet: an ephemeral show in the heart of my "Hellhole". It is organized each 2 years.
Each edition illustrates a different theme (the commemoration of major events, a country, a continent, the coat of arms of a city, etc.). This year on August, 16, the Carpet Flower will be devoted to a Mexican region, Guanajuato. it is a coincidence, but boy ! I love it !
Pics from previous editions :
More here : http://www.flowercarpet.brussels/en
The Atomium, constructed for the 1958 Brussels World's Fair (Expo 58) :
Typical Belgian dish : stuffed tomatoes with shrimp mayonnaise and of course, our famous frites !
A wink to our American friends
21 July is also about folklore, we "honored" Trump with a parade as he likes them so much
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Sometimes, Satan hides in details
(wrong depiction of the flag)
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Thank you. 
🇧🇪Thank you ! 
You are welcome at anytime.
It's not "twenty-oneth" it's 21st.
Happy Belgium Day.
Oops ! I swear, I didn't take any English lesson from Trump !
Thank, I'll correct.
Thank you very much !
Belgium is really a nice country. Of course, not the taste of Trump, not tacky enough...
This year, it was particular as it is the 100-year anniversary of WWI end. The parade was very colorful and international
your waffles, fries, the movies "In Bruges" and "Left Bank", and Matthias Schoenaarts (sp?). Enjoy the day!
The right spell is : Matthias Schoenaerts. 
And beers, chocolates. I can't say anymore the land of surrealism, as Trump has stolen the show !!
Thank you
In other times, Trump would have been tried under court-martial! 
Really ? I forgot to mention wafffles ??? 
It' s a case of forfeiture of nationality ! 
Thank you.
I don't think you are less civilized. The US is like 50 countries reunited. It can't be ruled as a small country with little population.
But there are fields that need to be seriously improved : education and healthcare. Even if each state has its own rules, these 2 fields should only be under federal jurisdiction.
