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Belgians will soon be able to relax in hops and barley as a new beer spa experience is about to open for the first time in Belgium. The "Good Beer Spa" in southern Brussels was founded by 42-year olds Benedict Biebuyck and his girlfriend Ana Bordonada after experiencing one in Prague in the Czech Republic two or three years ago. Biebuyck prepares the mixture for the jacuzzi: hop, yeast and malt combined with beer.

Bees in the Netherlands trained to detect COVID-19 infections Reuters Saturday, May 8th 2021, 2:51 pm - It can take hours or days to get a COVID-19 test result, but the response from the bees is immediate. The method is also cheap, potentially making it useful for countries where tests are scarce. By Bart Biesemans AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch researchers have trained bees, which have an unusually keen sense of smell, to identify samples infected with COVID-19, a finding they said could cut waiting times for test results to just seconds. To train the bees, scientists in the bio-veterinary re...

Belgian park party invite is April Fool, but no joke for police 10 Apr 2021 / 09:00 H. BRUSSELS, April 1 (Reuters) - A Facebook announcement for a giant party in a Brussels park during Belgium's COVID-19 lockdown was intended as an April Fool's joke, but has sent police and prosecutors scrambling as nearly 20,000 people have said they plan to attend. The announcement, posted in March, promised a host of DJs, singer and producer Calvin Harris and a one-off reunion of French band Daft Punk in the Bois de la Cambre, Brussels' largest park, on Thursday evening. "La Boum" (the party) would have...

10 Apr 2021 / 09:00 H. (Adds details of the event) By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS, April 1 (Reuters) - Police used teargas and water cannons on Thursday to disperse thousands of young people gathered in a Brussels park for a party in defiance of Belgium's COVID-19 lockdown, an event that began as an April Fool's joke on Facebook. Around 2,000 people showed up towards the end of a warm and sunny day to attend "La Boum" (the party) in the Bois de la Cambre park, local police said, even though the organisers had revealed days earlier that their invitation on social media was a hoax. Local media put th...