When to kiss !
Those of us from Ireland who have been travelling to Belgium over the last few years have fund the tradition of kissing, as part of the greeting ,a little difficult to understand . It is a tradition that we Irish are unaccustomed with and always makes us a little uncomfortable . I can across the following bit of advise on the travel site www.use-it.be (see previous BLOG “Flanders is hip”).
The instructions on kissing are particularly fun. “One kiss is for friends, three kisses are for birthdays, for New Year and for old grannies you hardly ever see. Two kisses: never. We never kiss someone we’ve never seen before, but it’s quite normal to kiss the girls after just one night out.” So now you know!
I don’t think this helps ,I occasionally get three kisses ,does that make me an old grandad ! Maybe our friends in Belgium can help .