The Belgian Team!

A Story by Abishai100

A 'little-prince' narrates this re-presentation of Euro (Belgian) commerce-highway enchantment(s), but a 'special Martian' may be eyeing this with doctorate.

A Euro-traffic 'report' with a humor-twist, inspired loosely by National Lampoon's European Vacation (Chevy Chase). Enjoy,

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Welcome to the modern world, a social-media driven commercial matrix which an alien-invader from Mars would comment as a 'diadem' of convenience-IQ (eBay, eTrade, eHealth, etc.). I'm a consumer reporter studying the convenience capitalism in Belgium (Europe!) and invest some of my princely-inherited and diamond-industry fortunes in Brussels Airlines.

Brussels is known for many things including rich culture and architecture and tourism and food-intrigue and of course is a neighboring diamond-center to Big-Brother Antwerp. Were it not for blood-diamond corruption/complications, Belgium (Brussels/Antwerp) would be a 'gold-castle' of the diamond-matrix, and it's still an investment-heavy city of hospitality and night-time intrigue and storyboards.

Belgium's recent spotlight on world-#1 ranked women's tennis phenom Justine Henin put the colors of the celebrated and candy-like rich-aesthetic national flag on many a tennis t-shirt wearing fan at Wimbledon and the French Open (Europe!).

I like seeing some of the colored stained-glass spiritual view inside a Brussels church which reminds me of the intersections of traffic (Europe!) that make life in Belgium reflective of real distance-closing for commerce-driven culture-exposure in modern times. This is religion-meets-tourism for commerce-centric Earth, and an alien-invader from Mars might appreciate the intricate labors that go into the erection of such 'ornate' colors of human insight. This isn't just tourism...it's a 'living' will.

When I go to Brussels and enjoy some of the nice nutritious candy-like breakfast menu items at a quaint eatery/bistro and think of the convenience-IQ behind powdered-milk goods and waffles-with-fruit, I think of the tribulations/intrigue that have crossed Euro-highways and how Euronext-mergers with the NYSE have vaulted the Belgian landscape into the 'dominion' of human storyboards.

When sports rules media/money in modern world of entertainment-driven highways and culture-exposure, in this year of the Qatar World Cup (soccer), you might wonder what kind of fancy magic you'd find while traveling inside the rich city of Brussels and notice tennis fan t-shirts being worn this summer as the US Open approaches.

So, I got into a special costume, stormed into a diamond-bank in old Brussels (Belgium) holding a toy water-gun filled with 'hot' acid and explained I was there for special media-theater photos of Baron Goldfinger's Sierra Leone ('conflict-zone') famous gems and swapped some of them with toy beads for a story in a Belgian fanzine with the headline, "Art replaces capitalism...only in Brussels!"

Of course, you can't leave Belgium (Brussels) without an 'exotic' view of a Euro-rendition of an Indian cuisine dish of creamy chicken curry colored orange with touches of tomato-accents delivering a message of what makes non-American capitalism still somehow 'offbeat' in the post-9/11 era of commerce-oriented lifestyle enchantment(s).

FANZINE: The water-gun used for the bank-diamond(s) media-stunt reminded the street-crossers of the 'lore' of money-humor.

STEWARDESS: What're you doing with all that play-money, good sir/traveler?
ME: Why, I'm a 'prince' and investor of Brussels Airlines (now) and hope for a 'story' during my flight to America!

STEWARDESS/FLIGHT-ATTENDANT: Cool; sounds like you're an eye-keeper of the commerce-securities exchange(s).

ME: Indeed...why, I'm the 'little-prince' of the transit-traffic commerce fanzine-storyboarding social-media faerie-tale (ha!).