March 2020. The world learns the words coronavirus and COVID-19. Lockdowns, travel restrictions, restrictions of other kinds, social distancing and other new dynamics which have become more or less natural since. No foreign travel meant staying in Belgium. So in 2020 and 2021 we did quite a few domestic excursions to still our hunger for…
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This was 2020: COVID-19 and a myriad of coronavirus countermeasures
2020 comes to an end. COVID-19 has been the most life disruptive thing in ages on a world stage and it still is.
Mauritshuis, The Hague in times of corona
In July, Steve and I stayed a weekend in The Hague in the Netherlands. One of our activities was the Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis.
Groninger Museum in Groningen, the Netherlands
Perhaps Groningen‘s main attraction is the Groninger Museum near the railway station. The current premises were inaugurated in 1994.
REVIEW | Prinsenhof Groningen
To celebrate out regained freedom after the first COVID-19 lockdown, Timothy and I decided to visit Groningen. This city was already on our bucket list of places to visit for a long time. A common free weekend in July enabled us to go there and spend the night in a local hotel as the distance…