WHERE NEWS & BUSINESS MEET GLAMOUR & GOOD TI MES SUMMER 2008 Togethermagazine COACHING SESSION Make time for each other on holiday TOUCHY A question of sport EUROPEAN VICE Chocolate on the cheap INTERVIEW Dita Von Teese : Strip-tease sensation SUNSHINE Tips on swimwear, scents and skin-care ge CLUB MED HOLIDAYS, WHERE HAPPINESS r a h c IS A WORLD FULL OF POSSIBILITIES a xtr *E UNIQUE LOCATIONS TO EXPERIENCE THE MOST UNFORGETTABLE MOMENTS 64 SUMMER VILLAGES AROUND THE WORLD MALDIVES, MAURITIUS, BRAZIL, INDONESIA ... 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Time to admire Take our Expat Survey... around.’ We can take the gorgeous creatures posing in our latest fashion shoot – not to mention, time out to go around of course, time to celebrate all the other the world but, today, good things in this issue. and win a language course! we devote so much time to looking for the cheapest, For a while, we can forget politics, fastest transport that the economy, work colleagues, the Metro, traffic jams… all the stresses How may we help you? we lose sight of real that we usually want to avoid but, travel values : discovery, strangely, which we often miss when broadening the mind, we’re far away. relaxation and meeting Learning a new language is like gaining another soul. One of the rewards Everyone at Together would take new people. of working abroad is the opportunity to expand your linguistic as well as this opportunity to wish you happy your professional horizons. holidays - we’ll see you again on rd ll the articles in this, 23 September for our ‘Back To Work’ Knowing that busy expats fi nd it hard to fi t in language lessons, Fortis our first Summer Special, edition ! is offering two week-long total immersion courses worth EUR 2,395 at have been written CERAN in Spa. To enter, simply complete our fully confi dential, no obligation with this and another Enjoy your time in the sun. Expat Survey at www.expatica.com/fortissurvey before 30 June. theme in mind – taking Ayour time. The results will help us further improve our expat banking, insurance and investment services. 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Publisher For more about our expat services, call the Fortis Expat Competence Centre on +32 (0)2 433 41 00 (Monday to Friday, 7 a.m.–10 p.m. and Saturday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.), e-mail us [email protected] or visit www.fortisbanking.be/expatinbelgium – Together Special Edition Your banker and insurer CONTENT SUMMER EDITORIAL 58 Conquered by 2008 4 Take your time the Normans over the holidays COACHING SESSION THE SNAPSHOT 60 Seeing the light 8 Raft work 62 Holidays : A great challenge COMPETITION 10 A vision of style DRESS TO IMPRESS 64 It’s in the bag ! TOUCHY 12 Sport : Culture, TEMPTATIONS politics or profits ? 66 Flower power 68 Jump in the water! EUROPEAN VICE 16 Cheap chocs push taste SUNSHINE out of Grand’Place 70 Our friend, the sun - 74 Boosting your beach body POINT OF VIEW 76 Between a WonderJock 18 Heading off for health and a hard place... 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Attracted by the riches of the West, they are prepared to risk everything to reach the promised land. A photograph of incredible illustrative and symbolic power – one that perhaps gives us something to ponder as we set off on our own ‘journeys’ this summer... J.S. www.rancinan.com The Raft of Illusions © Gérard Rancinan 10 – Together Special Edition Summer 200 Together – 11 COMPETITION A VISION OF STYLE 1. MK 720 Together teams up with to www.together-magazine.eu and answer the three questions below : 2. FS 444 optometrist davidrose 3. FS 445 for the chance to win five pairs of stylish shades to 4. FS 451 1. davidrose is located nearer to : create your Summer style. A. The European Parliament B. The European Commission C. NATO stablished in Brussels Leopold district in 2. How many pairs of glasses is December 2007, davidrose displaying in his shop davidrose is fast gaining window between 27th May and a reputation as the name 15th June ? 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Full rules available on request. Organiser : Together Magazine, Rue d’Alost, 7, 1000 Brussels. Models displayed may not be available in store. 12 – Together Special Edition Summer 200 Together – 13 TOUCHY SPORT : CULTURE, POLITICS OR PROFITS ? WRITER : CILLian DonneLLY With sport increasingly of making money. The days blurring the lines between of the gentleman contender, business, employment and the enthusiastic amateur, are sadly consigned to nostalgia ; nowadays, competition laws, and with the rewards of victory, and the domination its unsavoury side issues of merchandising territories have proved such as doping and racism, too tempting for global behemoths such should a case be made for as Ferrari, The Chicago Bears, a binding set of political or Manchester United. regulations? SPORTING QUESTION But what of political regulations ? The question has been asked for ith the advent and some time and, in May 2008, spread of global the European Parliament finally Beckham : went, were a breach of free trade, MEP Ivo Belet to coincide with capitalism, it is hard A sport voted on the controversial White another was that clubs should also the European Commission’s initial MEP Edward to deny that top or business icon ? Paper on Sport, designed to settle be free to move across borders, drafting of the White Paper in early 2007. McMillan-Scott : sporting events, © Together ‘With China, there is definitively the issue as envisaged leading to fears that pan-national a total lack of human Wsuch as the English Premier League under the EU’s ambitious Lisbon Goals.