In 2024, Dinner Train was going to offer dine and ride train experiences in Belgium after doing so in the Netherlands. It never happened. Now, the concept gets a second chance under the brand The Rolling Tables.
Tag: Leuven
Leuven Pride 2025 on Saturday 27 September
Leuven Pride returns, this year on Saturday 27 September 2025. Leuven Pride started in 2023 as Queer Arts Festival Leuven and became a fully-fledged Leuven Pride in 2024.
SOLO TRAVEL | More expensive, but also some advantages
In the advent of Valentine’s Day 2025, Gazet van Antwerpen (GvA) analysed the situation of single people. The number of households consisting of one person is on the rise. While ‘living alone’ isn’t the same as ‘being alone’ (romantically), it’s an indication. GvA looks into housing, the fiscal situation… but also travel. Travelling solo is…
2025: Overtourism overdose?
On 1 January 2024 we wrote about how rising prices affect travel. Not only the price of flights, but also the price of activities. Pricing was a topic the year before, 2023. In 2024, conventional and social media dug into the issue of overtourism. Articles about locals protesting, Instagrammers posting about big crowds in Japan…
BELGIUM | Fête du Rail at Rétrotrain, Saint-Ghislain
August 2024. Two weekends in a row, we experienced some Belgian railway heritage. On the 11th, we went to Baasrode-Noord for the Dendermonde – Puurs Steam Railway or Stoomtrein Dendermonde-Puurs over line 52. On the 17th, we travelled all the way to Saint-Ghislain for a special ride over freight railway line 100, organised by Le…
Antwerp Queer Arts Festival broadens horizon to Bruges and Leuven
With three Happy New Queer New Year’s parties and a call for residencies for Antwerp Queer Arts Festival 2025, AQAF is broadening its horizon to Bruges in West Flanders and Leuven in Flemish Brabant.
Leuven Pride 2024 parade route from railway station to Ferdinand Smoldersplein
On Wednesday 10 October 2024, Leuven in Flemish Brabant gets its first fully-fledged prude, with a parade. Ot will be a nocturnal affair, as it’s scheduled for 7 PM.
WALLOON BRABANT | Louvain-la-Neuve
In May 2024, Jeroen and I travelled to Louvain-la-Neuve in Walloon Brabant to visit the Musée Hergé or Hergé Museum. Georges Remi (1907-1983), better known as Hergé is the author of The Adventures of Tintin, which puts Belgium on many maps.
Leuven Pride on Wednesday 10 October 2024 ft. 7 PM pride parade
After the first edition of Queer Arts Festival Leuven in November 2023, the university city is now getting a fully-fledged Leuven Pride, organised by UniQue – Vlaams-Brabants Regenbooghuis (Flemish Brabant Rainbow House) and Queer Leuven. On 10 October 2024, there will be a parade at 7 PM
BELGIUM | Introduction to Charleroi
A month after our visit to Couvin, we returned to the province of Hainaut. While Danny and I have conducted trains to Charleroi-Central many, many times, we never really got out of the station to explore the 5th most populous city in Belgium.