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Sandra,
Your question made me smile. ;-) But our political / linguistic situation here is extremely complicated to explain to a foreigner.
"The Flemish part of Brussels". Well, actually, Brussels has no Flemish part. You see, Brussels (our capital) is the only place that politically / officially is bilingual in all of its territory : Flemish (= Dutch as to the language name) and French .
Belgium has two languages (actually three, also German in the extreme east).
North = Flanders, language = "Flemish" (= Dutch)
South = Wallonia, language = French.
And Brussels is just north of the linguistic frontier.
Sorry for acting like a teacher, but ... in a previous life I was one. :-)
But I hope this will answer your wuestion : I live in a village near IEPER (English form : Ypres), which is in the Flemish part, and is ... approx. 120 km / 75 miles west of Brussels.
Aurel Sercu
Boezinge - Ieper (Ypres)
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