From 10 February 2025, Eurostar will again run trains between Amsterdam Central Station to London St. Pancras. Engineering works in Amsterdam prevents this connection at the moment. Earlier, Eurostar CEO Gwendoline Cazenave threatened to leave the Netherlands altogether.
Month: October 2024
REVIEW | Athenarum Portus Life & Style Hotel in Piraeus
July 2024. Steve and I are cruising on the Norwegian Getaway, a Breakaway class ship by Norwegian Cruise Line or NCL. Interestingly, our stay on board happened shortly after the Getaway paid a visit to the dry dock for some refurbishments. The route? Piraeus, which is the port of Athens in Greece; followed by Mykonos;…
PHOTOS | ZOO Planckendael ‘Dragons of the North’ Light Festival until 5 January 2025
Currently and until 5 January 2025 ZOO Planckendael near Mechelen (Malines, Mechlin) hosts a Light Festival. This year’s theme is ‘Dragons of the North‘. Dennis suggested this excursion… and why not?
Spain – Andorra – Catalonia – Occitania – Andalusia 2023
In 2023 I ‘rediscovered’ the for Belgians traditional holiday destinations of France and Spain. And in France, I mostly stayed in what was traditionally more Latin or Iberian than the France which we associate with Paris, Bordeaux, Nice, Brittany, Normandy or the Champagne. In 2023, I explored areas with a more or less fiercely independent…
City of Antwerp buys De Blikvelden in Hoboken
The City of Antwerp is buying 1.65 hectares of nature on the Lageweg. The so-called Blikvelden have been accessible via the Frieslandstraat since 2021. The purchase is part of the Lageweg project: the site is centrally located in the project area and is necessary for the realization of a large future park. The Council of…
NEW ORLEANS | Riverwalk and Riverfront at the Mississippi River
June 2024. For our first visit to the United States of America since the COVID-19 pandemic, we flew to New Orleans via London Heathrow with British Airways. After two days of exploring NOLA, Amtrak‘s Crescent overnight train brought us from Louisiana to New York, where we we stayed one night only before flying home.
EuroPride 2027 to be held in Torremolinos, Turin, Vilnius or Gloustershire
Despite regional and national differences common in the European context, all four bids for the pan-European LGBTQIA+ event EuroPride in 2027 are clear that protest remains at the very heart of the Pride movement, and is more important now than it has been for many years.
ANTWERP | Rubens Experience and Rubens Garden at Rubenshuis
The Rubenshuis or Rubens House in Antwerp is being renovated and this renovation is a long journey until 2030. In the mean time, a Rubens Experience, the Baroque Garden and the Library or Rubenanium.
Flying Airbus A320neo with Aegean Airlines from Brussels to Athens return
July 2024. Steve and I are cruising on the Norwegian Getaway, a Breakaway class ship by Norwegian Cruise Line or NCL. Interestingly, our stay on board happened shortly after the Getaway paid a visit to the dry dock for some refurbishments. The route? Piraeus, which is the port of Athens in Greece; followed by Mykonos;…
ANTWERP | Start of tendering phase for pedestrian and cyclist Scheldt Bridge
The Council of Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Antwerp and the board of directors of De Vlaamse Waterweg nv approved the tender documents for the DBM procedure (Design Build Maintain) for a bicycle and pedestrian bridge over the Scheldt. This means that the tendering phase can now start for what should become a…
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