Until 26 January 2025, you can visit the ‘Klimt The Immersive Experience‘ – uhm – experience at DIVE, Digital & Interactive Venue in Antwerp. Yesterday, a wet and dreary January Sunday, Thanh and I went to experience Gustav Klimt.
Month: January 2025
WINTER IN ANTWERP 2024-2025 | 1.3M visitors, 120K for New Year’s fireworks, 64.4% hotel occupancy
Today, the 2024- 2025 edition of Winter in Antwerp was officially closed with ‘t Stad trakteert, The City treats. For four weeks, visitors were able to immerse themselves in the Christmas atmosphere at seven magical locations in the Antwerp.
REVIEW | British Airways London Heathrow to Brussels in Euro Traveller
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.
2025 | Antwerp City Hall hosts mini exhibitions on cathedral tower and on city history
Two small-scale exhibitions will open on the ground floor of Antwerp City Hall in the spring of 2025, one about the cathedral tower and one that uses archaeological research to shed light on the origins and growth of the city.
DARKLANDS 2025 | Programme & schedule highlights
From Tuesday 25 February to Monday 3 March 2025, Darklands takes over Gay Antwerp. For the fifteenth edition, this kink and fetish festival mostly but not exclusively geared towards men having sex with men will take over the Antwerp venue of Waagnatie. It will be the last time Darklands will take place at Scheldt-side events…
Ephesus
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;…
Darklands 2025 drops token payment system in favour of top-up Darkband
From Tuesday 25 February to Monday 3 March 2025, Darklands takes over Gay Antwerp. For the fifteenth edition, this kink and fetish festival mostly but not exclusively geared towards men having sex with men will take over the Antwerp venue of Waagnatie. It will be the last time Darklands will take place at Scheldt-side events…
2025: Overtourism overdose?
On 1 January 2024 we wrote about how rising prices affect travel. Not only the price of flights, but also the price of activities. Pricing was a topic the year before, 2023. In 2024, conventional and social media dug into the issue of overtourism. Articles about locals protesting, Instagrammers posting about big crowds in Japan…
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