This has always been the question that people asked me when we visited Bruxelles. Why does Petit Nicholas piss? What is the story behind this famous miniscule monument? And I never find the right answer for that. So, I’ve decided to do some research of this famous monument of Belgium, which is located at the junction of Rue de l’Étuve/Stoofstraat and Rue du Chêne/Eikstraat, near Grand Place Bruxelles, the Manneken Pis.

The funniest story, which I heard from my Germany’s friend Alan, he told me that it was back when …

Ypres (or Ieper in Dutch) is a Belgian town located in the Flemish province of West Flanders. The train took about two hours from Lille and had cost me merely 15 € for a return ticket.

I first thought it was a very tiny town without much to see. I was totally wrong.

During the First World War, Ypres was the centre of intense and severe bloody battles between the German and the Allied forces. The first poisonous mustard gas (also called Yperite from the name of this …