I lived in Belgium, so I should know that my default expectation of standoffishness is wrong! And I was even warned by a friend of mine who did his BA at McGill to expect high national feelings because of the holiday yesterday, but everyone was perfectly friendly. It was just extremely nice and part of a very nice weekend.

I may also have earned good will by replying to everyone in French before being forced to admit that my French is not usable. ;)