One year ago, on 12/12/12 Kim said goodbye to professional tennis in Het Sportpaleis in Antwerpen (Belgium). Now, three months after she gave birth to Jada's little brother Jack (September 18th), she found another fun date, 11/12/13, to organise her first 'Kim Clijsters Invitational' in the same Sportpaleis in Antwerpen. No idea if this is going to be a one time Invitational or if she's going to have these tennis meetings regularly (it'll be harder to find these fun dates though).
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Did you ever hear of Nemo 33, the deapest man made swimming pool in the world, a place in Brussels (Ukkel/Uccle)? Being of a curious nature, I went to have a look. You can only swim one hour at lunch time and one hour in the evening. Apart from that the place is for real divers, not for tourists like me. It's very easy to get to from my place : the ring and then exit Ruisbroek to the left and at the first roundabout left : the 33 meters deep swimming pool.
 
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The American website RateBeer (just like last year) crowned the Belgian Trappist Westvleteren 12 the best beer in the world. There are ten Belgian beers in the Top 50 (eleven last year). Rochefort 10 is number seven. Westvleteren 8 is number seventeen. Belgian restaurants and cafés also get good rates. One restaurant I like very much, called 'De Heeren van Liedekercke' in Denderleeuw, Oost-Vlaanderen, has been rated the best beer restaurant in the world! That's where I had my first... Read full post

7 grandslams, 4 olympic medals and twice she won the Diamond Games in Antwerp. This might have been the reason why Venus Williams was chosen to play Kim's very last match against her. If Venus had won, she would have taken home the racket full of diamonds, that up to now only the French Amélie Mauresmo possesses, since you have to win the Diamond Games three times to own one of the most beautiful rackets in the world. It was the 14th time Kim and Venus played each other. Kim invited... Read full post

Yes I did it : cycled 112 kms (69 miles) yesterday and did not get off my bike a single time on any of those steep heights around Brussels. "De Gordel" it is called, a greatly organised Flemish annual event, and has been for 32 years, unfortunately for the last time. And unfortunately francophone extremists, again, threw nails on the roads and many people had flat tires. I was lucky and my two friends Paul and Jos too : we arrived when the nails had just been cleaned up and the police were... Read full post

I am sooooo sad that our tennis player Kim Clijsters lost from the 18-year old Laura Robson, a girl I had never even heard of, even though Kim had won the US Open three times before. Her whole family was in New York : her sister Elke, writing for a Flemish newspaper, since she is married to Jelle Van Damme, a Belgian footballer, their father was Lei Clijsters, also a footballer. Kim's hubby is an American athlete Brian Lynch, former professional basketball player. Did you see their daughter... Read full post