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.
Month: March 2024
GALLO-ROMAN MUSEUM TONGEREN | ‘Antiquity in Colour’ exhibition until 2 June 2024
Tongeren (Tongres in French) in Limburg is the oldest city in Belgium, founded by the Romans in 10 AD as Atuatuca Tongrorum. Now it’s a city of 32,000 people and home of the Gallo-Roman Museum (Gallo-Romeins Museum). I hadn’t been since childhood. But until 2 June 2024 the museum hosts the ‘Antiquity in Colour‘ exhibition…
ANTWERP | Regional products, start-up business presentation, diamonds, children’s theatre at Het Steen in spring and summer 2024
Since its latest big renovation, Het Steen or the Stone Castle has been the major visitor centre for the City of Antwerp. As such, it offers seasonal programmes with many activities. Here is whats on the coming months.
HONG KONG ISLAND CENTRAL DISTRICT | Man Mo Temple – Lan Fong Yuen – Central–Mid-Levels escalator – Victoria Peak & Peak Tram – tram – Victoria Park – Star Ferry
It’s been a while since I used a travel agent to plan a trip. But a major travel agent in Belgium posted a deal one can’t refuse in a newsletter in June 2023. Flights from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol to Hong Kong with Cathay Pacific and three nights at the four-star Park Hotel Hong Kong in…
‘Jef Verheyen, Window On Infinity’ exhibition at KMSKA, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, until 18 August 2024
On 23 March 2024, the Jef Verheyen exhibition opened at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA), in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art of Antwerp (M HKA). ‘Jef Verheyen, Window On Infinity‘ is a first. Forty years after his death, it is the first solo exhibition of this illustrious modern master in…
REVIEW | Hotel Belmont M Gallery 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…
FOMU 2024 | Antwerp photography museum reopens on 28-29 March with Dirk Braeckman, ‘RE/SISTERS’ and Nick Geboers
FOMU, short for Fotomuseum, does it again. The Antwerp photography museum is currently closed as it is installing new exhibitions. FOMU does this every year. On Thursday 28 March, the museum hosts an opening party. On Friday 29 March, the museum is open for the general public.
North Catalonia, Northern Catalonia or French Catalonia: Catalan presence in France
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 Pride 2024 theme: ‘Many Voices. One Pride’
Antwerp Pride has revealed its theme, tagline, title for 2024: ‘Many Voices. One Pride‘. The organising committee calls upon everyone who cares for our rainbow community to draw a line in the sand and exclaim: “We are never going back in the closet!”
European Sleeper finally connects Belgium and the Netherlands to Berlin, Dresden and Prague
It had been the ambition of European Sleeper all along: a night train connecting Brussels in Belgium to Berlin and Dresden in Germany and Prague in Czechia. Via Amsterdam in the Netherlands. From Monday 25 March 2024, the European Sleeper will finally go all the way.
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