It’s summer so it’s time for Antwerp Pride and Antwerp Queer Arts Festival (AQAF). From 4 to 27 August 2023, AQAF hosts queer artists being queer, in the alternative, quirky, more rebellious sense of the word. Antwerp Pride, from 9 to 13 August, is more mainstream, openly catering to everyone and thus attracting a general,…
Month: August 2023
ICELAND | Esja(n) – Úlfarsfell – Krýsuvík – Seltún Geothermal Hot Springs
Iceland in November and December? Really? I saw an Icelandair promotion on Instagram which I couldn’t resist. The catch? It had to be late November to the start of December 2022. But I could – easily – enthuse Oriol to come along for a road trip in the South and West of Iceland.
Antwerp Pride, a fight by celebration
It’s summer so it’s time for Antwerp Pride and Antwerp Queer Arts Festival (AQAF). From 4 to 27 August 2023, AQAF hosts queer artists being queer, in the alternative, quirky, more rebellious sense of the word. Antwerp Pride, from 9 to 13 August, is more mainstream, openly catering to everyone and thus attracting a general,…
REVIEW | InterContinental Paris Le Grand
For my boyfriend’s 30th birthday I wanted to do something special and magical. As he had never visited Paris I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to visit the ‘Romantic‘ City of Lights. After hearing my friend Michel‘s raving stories of the InterContinental Paris Le Grand before it´s grand renovation I figured it was…
ANTWERP PRIDE 2023 | Antwerp Pride activities and events especially for women
It’s summer so it’s time for Antwerp Pride and Antwerp Queer Arts Festival (AQAF). From 4 to 27 August 2023, AQAF hosts queer artists being queer, in the alternative, quirky, more rebellious sense of the word. Antwerp Pride, from 9 to 13 August, is more mainstream, openly catering to everyone and thus attracting a general,…
BOLOGNA | University Museums of Palazzo Poggi ft. Obstetrics, Military Architecture, Geographical Maps and Human Anatomy
October 2022. As we wanted to test Trenitalia‘s Frecciarossa 1000 service from Paris to Milan, we planned a rail trip around it. From Antwerp to Paris with Thalys, the ‘Red Arrow’ to Milan and once in Italy continuing to Trieste and Bologna. The return trip took us to Basel in Switzerland to enjoy SBB‘s panoramic…
ANTWERP PRIDE 2023 | VULGAR joins Woodpop, A Hard Night, Oh Honey, SHE, H.I.M, Terrazza, Cutfest 2.0, The Boots and Belgian Puppy Social as Pride Saturday party
It’s summer so it’s time for Antwerp Pride and Antwerp Queer Arts Festival (AQAF). From 4 to 27 August 2023, AQAF hosts queer artists being queer, in the alternative, quirky, more rebellious sense of the word. Antwerp Pride, from 9 to 13 August, is more mainstream, openly catering to everyone and thus attracting a general,…
In search of Belgian or Flemish cuisine in Antwerp
The Loodswezen on the Scheldt Quays in Antwerp is to become the Smaakhaven. The Flemish Government is investing a whopping 38 million euros to create a Flemish Culinary Centre. But what is Flemish cuisine, in extenso Belgian cuisine? Of course, Flanders being Flanders, and being governed by Flemish nationalists, it underlines the Flemishness of the…
ICELAND | Eldborg Crater – Bjarnarfoss – Búðakirkja – Arnarstapi – Hellnar – Djúpalónssandur – Kirkjufell – Stykkishólmur
Iceland in November and December? Really? I saw an Icelandair promotion on Instagram which I couldn’t resist. The catch? It had to be late November to the start of December 2022. But I could – easily – enthuse Oriol to come along for a road trip in the South and West of Iceland.
ANTWERP PRIDE 2023 | 20 years Het Roze Huis and Café Den Draak’s Midsummer Party on Thursday 6 August at Draakplaats
It’s summer so it’s time for Antwerp Pride and Antwerp Queer Arts Festival (AQAF). From 4 to 27 August 2023, AQAF hosts queer artists being queer, in the alternative, quirky, more rebellious sense of the word. Antwerp Pride, from 9 to 13 August, is more mainstream, openly catering to everyone and thus attracting a general,…
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