About Charlie's Tribe

SIX Things you may not know about Charlie’s Tribe: 

1. The idea for Charlie’s Tribe was conceived on a particularly grey Sunday afternoon in Brussels by a group of dangerously bored “expat” house-mates. (click here for the gory details). 
2. A failure to enunciate (together with a temporary hearing problem) almost resulted in the name being “Charlie’s TRIPE” which appealed immensely to most of the house-mates, but not to a rather sensitive and sulky Charlie. 
   
   He did not think it was funny in the slightest. 
   
   Not at all.
3. Charlie’s Tribe is made up of a wide spectrum of people from all over the world - e.g. expats, locals, tourists, globetrotters, business people, students, public servants, nomads, day-trippers, commuters, drifters and …um…  space cowboys. 
4. All these people have come together in this virtual village simply because they found themselves, temporarily or permanently, inhabiting the same spot on Earth as each other and weren’t really quite sure what to do about it. 
5. Charlie’s Tribe grew out of a wish for these people to share with each other some local wisdom, news, views and other useful (and also completely useless) information in a fun way. 
6. Charlie is a very sweet but extraordinarily shy little soul. His identity is highly classified information, known only by a small handful of Tribe Members out there and they’ve all been made to sign secrecy agreements…. 
   
   In blood.
   
   Well… tomato juice, actually, since the whole cowardly lot of them turned out to be on the rather squeamish side. Anyway, the agreement strictly forbids them from revealing the true identity of Charlie and requires them to carry that secret to their grave. ‘Though there was some kind of get-out clause that would apply if they ever found themselves in situations of extreme torture - e.g. being made to drink warm sweet sherry whilst listening to Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On” (Personally, I've never understood that - why oh why must that woman's heart go on... WHY??).

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EVEN MORE...  useless information about some members of the Tribe:

Charlie - His favourite mode of communication tends to be monosyllabic grunting. He can barely be bothered to speak properly in his native Dutch language, much less say anything useful in English. Charlie is more than happy for the Tribe to keep using his name, just as long as we let him watch endless episodes of Law & Order and keep him supplied with endless jars of peanut butter. 

Zee-Man - Prone to being lazy and monosyllabic. He harbours a lethal snore that has been known to break the sound-barrier in three separate countries at the same time. Being the only Belgian in the group, Zee-Man is our resident expert on all things local – this explains why we so spend much of our time being thoroughly befuddled by our surroundings. 

MD and Aidan - the less said about them, the better. Chances are, if you follow the blog, you will be subjected to more information about these two degenerates than any human being can possible endure. MD came from South Africa and Aidan from the UK. They both work at the Department for Pan-European Strategic Shuffling of Critical Paperwork which is based in Brussels. MD has some high-powered job there about which she is extremely secretive (rumour has it she wields supreme power over all laws regulating paperclip use). On the other hand, Aidan works in the Minion Group together with his friend, Goober, scourge of all single women within a 3-mile radius.