On Thursday 6 November 2025, the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in the Belgian Ardennes unveiled its new tower project, now officially named the Uhoda Tower. It replaces the Uniroyal Tower.
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Introducing the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
We haven’t travelled to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg since 2018 and 2019, but in January 2025 we returned to get a taste of the Alstom Coradia Stream HC which the Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois (CFL) runs under the name Série 2400. The Coradia Stream HC was a candidate to become NMBS…
LUXEMBOURG | Diekirch and the Musée d’Histoire[s] or Museum of History/ies
We haven’t travelled to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg since 2018 and 2019, but in January 2025 we returned to get a taste of the Alstom Coradia Stream HC which the Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois (CFL) runs under the name Série 2400. The Coradia Stream HC was a candidate to become NMBS…
REVIEW | Lëtzebuerg City Museum or Luxembourg City History Museum
We haven’t travelled to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg since 2018 and 2019, but in January 2025 we returned to get a taste of the Alstom Coradia Stream HC which the Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois (CFL) runs under the name Série 2400. The Coradia Stream HC was a candidate to become NMBS…
Tri-Country Train between Maastricht, Liège and Aachen will start on Sunday 9 June 2024
Arriva‘s Tri-Country Train (Drielandentrein, Train des trois pays), which has been running between Maastricht in the Netherlands and Aachen in Germany since 2019, will continue to Liège in Belgium from 9 June 2024. The Tri-Country train is also known as LIMAX, an acronym for Liège-Maastricht-Aachen-Express.
Brussels to Luxembourg by train under 2 hours by 2030?
The Kingdom of Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg request the European Union to help fund better cross-border rail connections between the two neighbouring countries.
Belgium’s Great Spa Town of Europe Spa
After visiting the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Oriol and I decided to have dinner in the spa town of Spa. Yes, the word spa comes from Spa in Belgium, just as the duffle coat is named after the Belgian town of Duffel.
WALLONIA | Rochefort
The 21st of July is Belgium‘s National Day. This date was chosen as on July the 21st, 1831, Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha took the Constitutional Oat to become King of the Belgians. Being a public holiday with many shops and catering options closed, Oriol and I decided to go to Sedan just across…
FRANCE | 90 minutes in Charleville-Mézières
The 21st of July is Belgium‘s National Day. This date was chosen as on July the 21st, 1831, Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha took the Constitutional Oat to become King of the Belgians. Being a public holiday with many shops and catering options closed, Oriol and I decided to go to Sedan just across…
FRANCE | Sedan and Sedan Castle
The 21st of July is Belgium‘s National Day. This date was chosen as on July the 21st, 1831, Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha took the Constitutional Oat to become King of the Belgians. Being a public holiday with many shops and catering options closed, Oriol and I decided to go to Sedan just across…
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