2020. Corona. Travelling is a different game. Yet our Fernweh acted up too often. So we arranged a train trip to Germany and Austria. Specifically to Leipzig in Saxony, several spots in Bavaria and returning home with ÖBB‘s Nightjet from Innsbruck in Tyrol to Brussels in Belgium.
Author: Timothy
🇧🇪 Hobby journalist for @beoutbe, blogger @tripbytriporg, keen vexillologist, train conductor NMBS/SNCB, traveller, F1 follower, friend of Dorothy.
PHOTOS | Het Steen, Antwerp’s new Visitor Centre
It is open! Het Steen, Antwerp‘s medieval castle and historic cradle, has reopened its doors. Now it functions as Visitor Centre for tourists, visitors and – why not? – locals.
‘Masculinities: Liberation through Photography’ exhibition at FOMU, Antwerp’s photography museum
Until 13 March 2022, you can visit the ‘Masculinities: Liberation through Photography‘ exhibition at FOMU, Antwerp‘s photography museum. It was previously on display at the Barbican Centre in London.
David Hockney double exhibition at Bozar Brussels’ arts museum
Until 23 January 2022 you can visit the David Hockney exhibitions at Bozar, Brussels‘ art museum adjacent to Brussels-Central Railway Station. David Hockney, OM, CH, RA is perhaps most famous for his paintings of scantily clad men, often near pools.
More than, but also sausages: rich cuisine of Germany’s heartland Saxony, Franconia and Bavaria
2020. Corona. Travelling is a different game. Yet our Fernweh acted up too often. So we arranged a train trip to Germany and Austria. Specifically to Leipzig in Saxony, several spots in Bavaria and returning home with ÖBB‘s Nightjet from Innsbruck in Tyrol to Brussels in Belgium.
CONFIRMED | 2022 RegioJet night train from Ostend to Berlin, Warsaw and Prague
We now know the timetable of the European Sleeper RegioJet night train from Prague and Warsaw to Ostend via Berlin, Amsterdam, Antwerp and Brussels. Open access was granted open access for the period from 12 December 12 2021 to 12 December 2026. Poland‘s railway regulator UTK has given operations its approval.
‘Eurasia – A Landscape of Mutability’ exhibition at Antwerp’s M HKA modern arts museum
On Friday, the ‘Eurasia‘ exhibition opened at Antwerp‘s modern arts museum M HKA or Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst in Antwerpen. As museumPASSmusées holders, Thanh and I visited the exhibition on a beautiful autumn Saturday.
Innsbruck
2020. Corona. Travelling is a different game. Yet our Fernweh acted up too often. So we arranged a train trip to Germany and Austria. Specifically to Leipzig in Saxony, several spots in Bavaria and returning home with ÖBB‘s Nightjet from Innsbruck in Tyrol to Brussels in Belgium.
ITALY | Turin hosts 2022 Eurovision Song Contest
The Italian city of Turin has won the race to become the host city of the 66th Eurovision Song Contest. Seventeen cities had posted a bid to host Eurovision. The Grand Final will be held in PalaOlimpico on Saturday 14 May with Semi-Finals on 10 and 12 May.
The orange world of Design Museum Brussels
I got myself a museumPASSmusées in January 2021. After Coudenberg in Brussels, the Comics Art Museum also in Brussels and the Red Star Line Museum in Antwerp and the Brussels Planetarium I visited the Design Museum Brussels with Thanh.
