Uccle

The Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium said it was 37.7 degrees Celsius on parts of the Belgian coast at 1300 GMT and that the Brussels neighbourhood of Uccle had registered its warmest July 19 ever at 36.4 degrees.

We celebrated our reunion at Le Pigeon Noir in the Uccle neighborhood, an uncomplicated bistro that makes exquisite renditions of familiar French and Belgian dishes.

Johnson attended the European school in Uccle, which educates the children of EU officials.

The residence, located in a leafy residential area in the Uccle section of Brussels, is not at the pinnacle of Brussels luxury standards, people who have spent time there said.

In the space of a year, he underwent surgery on his knee, his parents divorced and the family faced eviction from their social housing block in the troubled inner-city area of Uccle.