Kasteel van Rullingen in Belgium!

Photo's submitted by:

Dear Robert,

Please find hereby 2 photo's of the "Kasteel van Rullingen".
A beautiful old restored castle that's now hotel and restaurant.

http://www.rullingen.com/nl/

Kind regards,
Britta
Secrets of the Desert
Tel: +32 11 600 110
Fax:+32 11 73 56 51
E-mail: info@secretsofthedesert.be
www.secretsofthedesert.be
Lic. A6093

Belgians and others....let's do business!

We have 615 members in our group. We come from all types of business and social backgrounds.

Here we have a place for anyone in the group to have a post of their needs and desires from a business standpoint. If you have a product to sell, or are looking for a product to buy....POST IT. Send it to me and I'll immediately post it.
Send it to: rjgrawet@yahoo.com

Friends of Belgium Member Magda Vandenbussche will help you find a home in Houston, TX

HOUSTON, TEXAS best place to buy a house.



FORBES MAGAZINE rated HOUSTON no 1 as the best place to buy a house. Prices are stable, tax incentives are attractive and the economy is doing well.

Houston is a cosmopolitan city. We have more than 70 consulates and when doing your groceries, you will hear all kinds of languages spoken. Due to the oil industry and NASA, and a growing job market in a lot of sectors, people are relocating to Houston from abroad as well as from other states in the US. Compared to other places in the US, our property prices are very reasonable. A family home in a good area starts around $ 200,000 and you can still find waterfront homes under 1 million dollar.

Texas has also been rated as a good place to buy a second home. From the miles of coast line to the ranches in the Hill Country, Texas has a lot to offer to those that are looking for a vacation home or a retirement place.

For more information: magda@fineinternationalhomes.com

What Belgian companies have offices in Mexico?

Dear friends,

I would like to join your network; I am belgian located in Mexico.

I want to make links between business in Mexico and Belgium.
Do you have a directory of Belgian companies with offices Mexico ?

Thanks in advance for your fine attention.

Best regards,
Arturo Cazares.

Seeking Internation Distributors - - Will you be at the Infocomm 2008 show in Las Vegas?

Hello, Verwelkoming, Bonjour....

My company; Advanced Method seeks international distributors and North American dealers for our product called "Express". It is for the digital signage industry. It is "Powerpoint for digital signage", and is a ease of use/price performance breakthru.

Remember how 'before' Powerpoint you had to pay many thousands of dollars to get a presentation done. When Powerpoint came along the presentation world was revolutionized. After Powerpoint (A.P.), you could make your own presentation in 30 minutes. OR...you could have a graphic designer help you to make it pretty; or combine both to get what you needed.

We offer you the equivalent of that in our new product for digital signage called Express. It is digital signage for everyone!

If you will be at the Infocomm show June 18 - 20, I'd love to meet you. We will be demonstrating the product in the booth of EIKI International - booth # N-5101. My company

I welcome the opportunity to show you why your company should take our product to the world!

Send to: rjgrawet@yahoo.com

550 Members of Friends of Belgium Business and Tourism Link

There are now 551 members of our LinkedIn.com group.

Members are from more than 50 countries, although the heaviest concentration is in the Benelux countries and the US and Canada.

Let's find ways to connect for actual business!

Send your ideas and I will post them here!

Washington State Apples or other fruits and vegetables

We can connect you with growers of Washington State fruits and vegetables. Let us know if you have an interest in large shipments for export from Washington State.

Also....let us know what business connection you have to offer.

We wish to post any and all business potential connections from members to this site.

Need Business or Tourism help in Thailand?

If you wish to contact Bart (new member Friends of Belgium) to learn about doing business in Thailand; please send us an email: rjgrawet@yahoo.com

Below is Bart's email:


Robert,

Thanks for accepting me in the group Robert.
I’m living and working in Thailand, so basically am pretty far from my hometown Hasselt, Belgium.
Pretty cool to start this group as a Belgian Descendent.
If some members would like advice about Thailand or other I'd gladly assist in replying their queries

Bart
Regional Operations Manager 'Major Int'l Corp' Asia

American Made Motorcycles for big savings shipped from America to YOU!

With the US Dollar at such a low point vs. the EURO and many other currencies, there are many opportunities to buy goods and services in the US for much less than in Europe, Asia, etc.

I have a post from someone who has access to American made motorcycles new or slightly used.

Do you wish to buy a motorcycle here and ship to you and save lots of money?

Give us the spec of what you wish to buy and we'll send the details to you. There is no obligation for your request.

Let's do some business here or help someone travel more easily!

Are you looking to buy something and import it to or from Belgium?

Do you have a product to sell to or from Belgium?

Do you want to buy a house in the USA (with the low USDollar)? or sell a house in Belgium?

Are you going to travel to Belgium or from Belgium soon?

Are you looking to hire someone in Belgium or does a Belgian firm wish to hire a rep or employee to handle their products outside of Belgium?

Send us any posts having to do with one of those thoughts and we'll post it here. We hope that by providing this free site to the more than 500 members of Friends of Belgium Business and Tourism Link that we can actually help some people get some business, find a new employee or job, or make their next trip to or from Belgium a little easier.

Myk Bova is Member #500!

Myk is a self employed software engineer trained in the Ukraine. Welcome Myk!

499 Members as of this date! Who will be #500?

Who will be the 500th person to join?

We offer to post your picture of you, or whatever other picture you wish (could be business related) PLUS your personal message about your business for the person who becomes member #500.

This group has grown extremely fast from its founding in April 2008. Two months - 500 members.....that is amazing!

Let's grow this into the most interesting and relevant place for exchange of business, tourism, and other ideas as is available on the net.

Please send your ideas for business; IE: You have something you wish to export/import....let us know. We'll post it for all to see.

Belgians invent a new game.........

From Reuters Newswire: May 20, 2008

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Two Belgian beer fans have launched a video game named 'Place to Pee', which allows players to slalom down ski slopes or kill aliens while relieving themselves at urinals.

Werner Dupont, a software developer, and Bart Geraets, an electrical engineer, got the idea while drinking Belgian trappist beers, they told Reuters Television at a local festival on Sunday.

"This thing had to be invented by Belgian people and that's what we are," they said.

The 'Place to Pee' booth is designed for two users at a time and offers two games -- blowing up aliens in outer space or skiing down a virtual slope. Gamers hit their target by aiming at sensors positioned on either side of the urinal.

A specially designed paper cone allows women to play too, the inventors say.

Their 'Place to Pee' logo resembles 'Manneken Pis', the little urinating boy fountain that is among Brussels' top sightseeing attractions.

Dinant, Belgium webcam

Dinant, Belgique live webcam can be found at:

http://www.dinant.be/index.htm?lg=1&m1=2&m2=171&m3=668

Belgium at Sea

One member of Friends of Belgium has sent a great selection of photos of the Belgian Navy and Marines. Please click on the url on the right side to go to the Friends of Belgium pictures site.

Thank you very much for the photos;

CORNEZ Philippe

Capitaine de Frégate – Fregatkapitein

May 15 - Now almost at 500 members!

It's been amazing growth for the last 2 weeks. We've gone from 350 - to 400, then 446 in 10 days; NOW we're just about to go over 500 members.

When you look at our site; it's always interesting to look at the little map on the right hand side of the page. It shows where recent visitors to the site are located. The map is filled with little flags to indicate where the visitor came in from. These flags are from around the world!

Thanks for joining. Please take a look at the picture site of Belgium by clicking on that link....AND please consider sending a picture of yourself in Belgium, or your favorite Belgium picture.

From 400 members to 446 members in 10 days!

Welcome to Belgium in pictures and the Linkedin.Com Friends of Belgium site.

Be sure to click on the thumbnail picture to the left on this post. It will explode to a full screen picture and is well worth the effort!

Thank you for stopping by. Please consider sending a picture of your favorite place in Belgium. It would be even better to have a picture of YOU in Belgium.

Best Regards to all.

Robert J. Grawet
Founder
Friends of Belgium
RJGrawet@yahoo.com

You're invited to take a tour of Belgium!

If you click on the url to the right entitled; "Belgium Picture Gallery", you'll be taken to our current collection of more than 80 pictures from all over Belgium.

(It's located on the right side, right under the picture of Bruges/Brugge)

I'd love to add you favorite photo to our collection so the whole world can see this beautiful country. (the home of my ancestors and still the home to many of my relatives)

I'm sorry I can't take you actually to Belgium. I'd love to share the beauty of sitting in the town square at Bruges or Leuven......drink some Belgian beer......see the wonderful architecture.......but you'll have to just imagine yourself there via these pictures for now.

Thanks for stopping by.

Thank you Leo for sending this picture of Wilmarsdonk

Picture sent by Friends of Belgium member; Leo Schrauwen.

Well, the picture I send you is from only two miles away from my house in the port of Antwerp.
It is the only remaining of the church of a small village Wilmarsdonk and is surrounded by lots of containers and docks these days. Wilmarsdonk was a village north of Antwerp, which has disappeared under the Port of Antwerp expansion.
The village was first mentioned in 1155 and merged into the city of Antwerp in 1927.
The village was sacrificed to the expansion of the harbor and destroyed in 1965.
Only the church tower was preserved.

Whether you call it Brugge or Bruges, its beautiful just the same!

Please stop by my Belgium photo collection by clicking on the url to the right. There are 50 photos now of some of the most beautiful sites in Belgium.

If you just clicked in from Linkedin.com, please consider joining the Friends of Belgium LinkedIn.com group by clicking on the url to join; also on the right.

I'd love to keep adding beautiful pictures to my collection, so if you have one to send (or more), I'd love to add your favorite picture of Belgium. I especially like them when you are included in the picture.

rjgrawet@yahoo.com

Welcome to Friends of Belgium

Please consider sending your favorite pictures of Belgium, so that we can include them in our picture gallery. You can access the gallery by clicking on the url on the right side of the screen.

Welcome!

Welcome Bruce Rotvold as member #400

I don't have a picture of Bruce; but I do have a picture of his Harley Davidson parked at the tip of Florida. '90 Miles from Cuba' is what his caption says.

Bruce is also a member of another group (my passion) Worldwide Motorcycle Association.

Welcome Bruce! Speech........Speech.......Speech.....

More to come!

Welcome to Friends of Belgium - Linked In.com Members

Hello and welcome to the Linked In.com Friends of Belgium. I am Robert Grawet the founder of Linked In Friends of Belgium and a descendant of Emile Grawet who immigrated from Watervliet, Belgium to the United States with his family in 1905.

As of 27 April 2008 there are almost 400 members in Friends of Belgium. They represent more than 50 countries. Of course there are a great percentage from Belgium, but there are also many who have other connections to Belgium or wish to have business connections.

I hope you will consider sending us your avorite picture of Belgium so that we can post it on this site. We also love pictures of you IN Belgium somewhere.

I will be adding information to this site on a constant basis.

PLEASE feel free to make comments to my posts. Also feel free to send me an email if you have ideas for how to improve our group.

rjgrawet@yahoo.com

Make sure you check the beautiful photos that have been sent by members from around the world who have a connection to Belgium.