Dinner Train is expanding from the Netherlands to Belgium. The concept is simple, really, while you dine, Dinner Train travels on the rails. The first ride in Belgium is in Saint Nicholas (Sint-Niklaas, Saint-Nicolas), on Friday 1 March 2024.
Month: January 2024
Life on board VIA Rail’s The Canadian: eating, sleeping, showering and keeping busy
In May and June 2023, we travelled from east to west across Canada. From Halifax in Nova Scotia to Montreal in Quebec, to Toronto in Ontario, to Vancouver and Whistler in British Columbia. Along the way some night trains and commuter trains, the Niagara Falls and – imagine this – a bus journey. A true…
Antwerp Pride 2024 to be more militant against growing opposition to LGBTQIA+: “We’re not going back in the closet”
August is pride month in Antwerp, with Antwerp Queer Arts Festival (AQAF) and Antwerp Pride, which will be held from Wednesday 7 to Sunday 11 August 2024. While a notch more festive and a notch less political than Brussels Pride – The Belgian & European Pride, and 2024 is a major election year, Antwerp Pride…
QUEER ANDORRA | Entre Nous, the only gay bar in the village
September 2023. Oriol and I are flying to Toulouse for a road trip in Occitania and (French) Catalonia. We include the Principality of Andorra, which I can finally tick off the bucket list, and Llívia, Spain‘s exclave in France. Besides Toulouse we visit Mont-Louis, Villefranche-de-Conflent, Perpignan and Carcassonne.
Antwerp’s municipal museums welcomed over 1.5 million visitors in 2023
In 2023, more than 1.5 million visitors found their way to the exhibitions and permanent collections of the municipal museums managed by the City of Antwerp, bringing the museums back to the numbers they were in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Europeans more accepting of LGBTQIA+ people than their political leaders
Despite hateful campaigns and attacks on LGBTQIA+ rights, more and more people across the European Union agree that LGBTQIA+ people deserve equal rights and a life free from discrimination, according to the latest Eurobarometer of the EU.
GREECE | Delos excursion from Mykonos
Maspalomas on Gran Canaria. Sitges in Catalonia. Torremolinos in Andalusia. Mykonos in the Cyclades. These are arguably the main – and cliché – resort destinations for European gay beachgoers. But that’s not why Steve and I are going to Mykonos. We’re not beachgoers, we don’t have beach bodies, we don’t enjoy going out. No, we…
ANTWERP | Daniel Libeskind and Fernand Huts’ controversial Boerentoren redesign dropped, but skyscraper will get new viewing platform
In Zurich, where Katoen Natie leader and multimillionaire Fernand Huts presented his T-rex skeleton, the self-proclaimed philanthropist announced the very controversial redesign of the Boerentoren in Antwerp is being dropped. Renown architect Daniel Libeskind goes back to the drawing board.
THE CANADIAN | From Jasper via the Rocky Mountains to Kamloops and Vancouver
In May and June 2023, we travelled from east to west across Canada. From Halifax in Nova Scotia to Montreal in Quebec, to Toronto in Ontario, to Vancouver and Whistler in British Columbia. Along the way some night trains and commuter trains, the Niagara Falls and – imagine this – a bus journey. A true…
ANTWERP | Northern Pavillion at Scheldt’s Northern Terrace gets revamp
AG VESPA, City of Antwerp‘s real estate agency and promotor, is revamping the Northern Pavillion (Noorderpaviljoen) at the Northern Terrace (Noorderterras) on the Scheldt Quays.
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