Once I was installed in my new home and after making the relevant ikea purchases in order to survive, I realized that although many things are the same through out the world, many other things we take for granted are actually very different than they are in your home country.

They are usually small unimportant details, but sometimes are big changes that affect the way you live. I will discuss some examples to get in position:

- Meal Times:
in Spain the most important meals are breakfast, lunch and dinner. And these are usually done at 8.00, 14.30 and 22.00. But here only give importance to the food, but the substitute is a mid-morning snack 12.30 and dinner at 19-20 h.

- Opening hours of shops:
in Spain as clothing stores, supermarkets or stores of any kind open in the morning and all afternoon until 20-22h. But here no clothes store is open later than 18.30.

So given what I have said is quite difficult to make a normal life in Belgium if you're used to the Spanish times and do not try to adapt to new schedules.

- Especially taking into account another factor that differentiates so much life in Belgium of the life in Spain are the hours of sunshine. If you live here following the spanish schedules, daylight hours will not be enough to you to do almost anything. Because in Spain there are many more sunshine hours than here in Belgium.