From 6 February to 17 May 2026, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp or Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (KMSKA) presents ‘The Fall of Alba’s Citadel. Image and Memory in Turbulent Times‘, an exhibition that explores how power, conflict and propaganda have shaped the image and memory of Antwerp’s citadel over more than…
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NORTH CAROLINA | Walmart Supercenter Leland
Easter 2025. I’m visiting my uncle and aunt in Leland, North Carolina. It’s my first trip of two to the United States in 2025. I haven’t seen them live since February 2020 just before the first lockdown and I haven’t travelled to this area since 2019. I’m flying with SAS and Delta. The itinerary: Brussels…
ANTWERP | New-build Technical Cluster North ready at the end of 2027
On the Havana site in the north of Antwerp, the City of Antwerp is constructing a new logistics centre. In the future, this large energy-neutral building will become the base of operations for 600 employees from various municipal operational services. It is scheduled to be taken into use at the end of 2027, if everything…
REVIEW | The Loft by Brussels Airlines and Lexus business lounge at Brussels Airport A-Gates
August 2025. We’re travelling to the Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and more specifically their respective capitals Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius. Are they interconnected by rail? Yes, but not in the most straightforward or userfriendly way possible. The Rail Baltica project should remedy this. Unsurprisingly though, this megaproject faces political and budgetary hurdles. It…
ANTWERP | 570,000 visitors in 2025: KMSKA sets new record in third year after reopening
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp or Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (KMSKA) closed 2025 with over 570,000 visitors, a new record. The opening year in 2023 attracted almost 535,000 visitors.
NORTH CAROLINA | Wilmington Riverwalk
Easter 2025. I’m visiting my uncle and aunt in Leland, North Carolina. It’s my first trip of two to the United States in 2025. I haven’t seen them live since February 2020 just before the first lockdown and I haven’t travelled to this area since 2019. I’m flying with SAS and Delta. The itinerary: Brussels…
Antwerp’s municipal museums surpass 2 million visitors in 2025
The visitor numbers for Antwerp‘s municipal museums have been tallied. More than 2 million visitors once again found their way to the exhibitions, permanent collections, and numerous projects in the various museums in 2025. A record number.
ANTWERP | Planting of trees means Zurenborg – Borgerhout Spoorpark is on schedule for summer of 2027
The relocation of a key technical building in 2025 has cleared the final obstacle for the creation of Antwerp’s new Spoorpark (Railway Park), which is set to open in the summer of 2027. The project will establish a green, two-hectare link between Zurenborg and the Luitenant Naeyaertplein in Borgerhout, running alongside the railway tracks. The…
TOKYO | Asakusa ft. Sensō-ji Temple
Autumn 2025. We – Sam and Danny, Michel and Wille, and Timothy – are travelling to Japan for a quite classic tour of the Land of the Rising Sun. We are flying separately as we used miles. On the planning: Tokyo, Kanazawa, Shirakawa, Osaka, and Expo 2025, Hiroshima, Himeji, Miyajima, Kyoto, Nara, Nagoya, Hakone, and…
FINLAND | Enjoying the white nights of Helsinki
In the summer of 2025 I went to Helsinki in Finland when Midsummer was celebrated. On this longest day of the year Finnish people head into nature and celebrate what it means to be a Finn. I decided to stay in the capital for one and a half week to get a real first impression…