On Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 October, the City of Antwerp is organizing the eighth edition of the culinary festival Smaakmeesters or Taste Masters, in different parts of the city. Around a hundred Antwerp catering and specialty shops will allow visitors to taste their mastery for an entire weekend and the city center will once…
8-9 OCTOBER | Antwerp Open Houses 2022 commemorates victims of World War II
The second edition of Open Houses will take place in Antwerp on Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 October. These are small-scale commemorations for victims of World War II as part of the long-term project Antwerp Commemorates (Antwerpen Herdenkt).
SWITZERLAND 2022 | Thurbo Seelinie, discovering Switzerland’s northern lake route
After the year 2021 without visiting my sister Florence in Zug in Switzerland, I finally returned to the Confoederatio Helvetica in March 2022. I stayed over a week. More than a family visit, I organised an excursion to French-speaking Switzerland, also known as Romandy, to visit Maxime and the vineyards of Lavaux in the canton…
REVIEW | Hotel Carlota in Mexico City
June 2022. Although I have been in Mexico before, the last time was in 1994-1995. Twenty-seven years later, Oriol and I are doing a classic tour of the United Mexican States, featuring Mexico City (CDMX); Palenque in Chiapas; Villahermosa in Tabasco; Uxmal, Mérida, Chichen Itza, Ek’ Balam, Valladolid, and a few cenotes (waterholes) in Yucatán…
Smart Ways to Antwerp with ‘Slim naar Antwerpen’ navigation app
Antwerp‘s mobility department Slim naar Antwerpen (Smart Ways to Antwerp) developed a brand new, extensive live navigation for its smartphone app. In this way, the city makes finding alternatives to one’s own car even easier and more attractive to use.
Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) reopens on 23-24-25 September 2022
Finally, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (RMFAA) or Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (KMSKA), will reopen after some twelve years. Officially, the museum reopens on Saturday 24 September, but neighbours can visit the premises a day earlier, on Friday 23 September.
The Hofburg in Vienna
Autumn 2021. In theory we could travel to other continents, but destinations we had in mind such as Japan or the United Kingdom were impossible to plan ahead. Instead we organised a rail trip to Eastern Europe, travelling to Berlin, Gdańsk, Wrocław, Karlovy Vary, Pilsen, Bratislava, Poprad, Vienna, Linz and Salzburg. By travelling to Germany,…
ANTWERP | Wapper near Meir and Rubens House to be renovated into a contemporary and climate-robust city square
The Wapper, an elongated square in the center linking the Meir to the Schuttershofstraat and Hopland, will be thoroughly renovated. Because the square is intensively used by shoppers, traders and passers-by, among others, the current state is no longer sufficient, the City of Antwerp says in a press release.
A sneak peek into Antwerp’s renovated City Hall
It was that time of the year again: Antwerp Pride and Antwerp Queer Arts Festival. Pride focused on the second weekend of August: from Wednesday 10 to Sunday 14. AQAF runs from 5 to 28 August. In 2022, Antwerp Pride turned 15 and looked 15 years into the future under the banner of ‘Queertopia‘. AQAF…
SWITZERLAND | The Grisons or Graubünden
After the year 2021 without visiting my sister Florence in Zug in Switzerland, I finally returned to the Confoederatio Helvetica in March 2022. I stayed over a week. More than a family visit, I organised an excursion to French-speaking Switzerland, also known as Romandy, to visit Maxime and the vineyards of Lavaux in the canton…
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