Autumn 2025. We – Sam and Danny, Michel and Wille, and Timothy – are travelling to Japan for a quite classic tour of the Land of the Rising Sun. We are flying separately as we used miles. On the planning: Tokyo, Kanazawa, Shirakawa, Osaka, and Expo 2025, Hiroshima, Himeji, Miyajima, Kyoto, Nara, Nagoya, Hakone, and…
Antwerp Airport faces uncertain future as subsidies, TUI exit and new business model collide
Government backs five-year test for Deurne Airport The future of Antwerp International Airport (ANR) is increasingly uncertain as the Flemish Government defends continued public funding while the airport prepares for the departure of its last major scheduled airline, TUI Fly. The French operator Egis is being given a new five-year framework to make the airport…
Czechia becomes Europe’s only destination where British women outspend men, Belgium second-most gender-balanced market
For the first time in Europe, female tourists from the United Kingdom are outspending their male counterparts in a single destination: Czechia. According to new analysis by Solo Female Travellers, British women spent an average of £722 per visit to Czechia in 2024, compared to £659 for men, a 9.60% premium for female travellers.
GERMANY | Koblenz Christmas Market or Koblenzer Weihnachtsmarkt in Rhineland-Palatinate
After Bonn in 2023 and Münster in 2024, Dennis and I went further than North Rhine-Westphalia for our 2025 Christmas market in Germany outing. We went to Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate, at the confluence of the Rhine and the Moselle rivers. Hence the name of the city.
CITY OF LONDON | Bank Junction – Guildhall – Roman Wall – Barbican
In 2024, I showed Oscar from Denver, Colorado the highlights of London. It was his first time in England. In contrast, Thanh and I have been to the capital of the United Kingdom many times. During the weekend of Pentecost 2026, we went together for a weekend of museums, food, and a concert.
GAY STOCKHOLM | Cliché souvenirs
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THAILAND + MALAYSIA | Questions for a first time in Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur
The Philippines in 1996-1997, China in 2000, Vietnam in 2009, Japan in 2013 and 2025, South Korea in 2014 and 2024, Taiwan in 2017 (the starting point of Trip By Trip), Singapore in 2018, Hong Kong and Macau in 2023. I like travelling to East Asia. Yet I never visited Thailand, for many westerners the…
GAY STOCKHOLM | Thank you for the music, ABBA
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BRUSSELS | Kanal to open on Saturday 28 November 2026 with free inaugural weekend
Kanal-Centre Pompidou will open its doors in Brussels on Saturday 28 November 2026, launching its new museum with a free, 36-hour inaugural weekend and ten exhibitions spanning modern and contemporary art, architecture, collections and site-specific installations.
NETHERLANDS | ACM clears Arriva’s plans for direct trains from Amersfoort and The Hague to Paris
Arriva’s plans to launch direct international train services from Amersfoort and The Hague to Paris can go ahead after Dutch regulator the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) concluded that the services would not have a significant negative impact on NS’s main rail network concession.