I forgot to publish this post - coming soon: London and Paris!
There is Halloween here in Belgium, but they just started celebrating it 10 or 15 years ago. For that, it's not nearly as big as it is back in the US. Hardly anyone puts up decorations. I did, however, with the help of my two younger host sisters, Amelie and Emma - thanks to my parents who sent me the decorations (one of those fake spider webs, and then a door hanging). They do go trick or treating with the very young kids, but the older kids tend not to.
And they don't have candy corn here! I had some of my friends taste candy corn - some of them liked it, but a majority thought it was nasty. Blashphemous!