Free College Level Online Courses: More

It it very glad to know that more and more college level courses are provided online for free.  I have not examine the websites seriously.  I cannot say which one is better than others.  Nonetheless, edx seems to provide more maths and statistics classes that I have wanted to take than other sites.

https://www.coursera.org/

https://www.edx.org/

Kayaking in Ghent

My dream in the near future is to sail a canal or river in Belgium with my family without making any trouble with transporting and sailing kayaks and returning an starting point.  Considering the concerns, I have searched out a number of web pages and I found out an interesting website.  And, I made a tentative conclusion that Flanders is better than Wallonia in paddling with my own kayaks.  This summer, I will try paddling in Ghent. 

http://www.kajaktourtochten.be/

Hallerbos

Brussels has few attractions compared to other metropolitan cities of Europe.  Manneken Pis and Grand Place are quite disappointing.  I heard from my colleagues, however, that there is a hidden gem nearby Brussels.  This is bluebell flowers in Halle's forest.  Every April the forest is covered with bluebell flowers.  Today, I went there with my wife and kids.  The beds of bluebell flowers looked amazing.  My kids enjoyed riding of bicycles between the bluebell flowers beds.  However, it is not easy to reach there because GPS navigation systems cannot pin point the forest.  After I selected anywhere of hallerbosstraat in Halle (1500) in my TomTom because I could not have a specific house number, I drove to hallerbosstraat.  I saw a sign leading tourists to Hallerbos.

http://www.hallerbos.be/bloeigegevens_2013.html