January 2024. Since December 2023, there’s a new intercity train service between Leuven (Louvain) and Charleroi-Central, with stops at Heverlee, Wavre (Waver), Ottignies, Court-Saint-Étienne (Sint-Stefaanshof) and Fleurus. Wanting to try this new link, we decided to first travel to Charleroi via Brussels, a classic itinerary. There we explored railway line 132 to Mariembourg and then…
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Dinner Train in Belgium postponed to September 2024 or to never?
Monday 13 May 2024, early morning. Coming Saturday, we are due to experience the Dinner Train from Namur. But as this post is published early morning, we have not received conformation of our ride. Which coach, which seat? We don’t know. And honestly we don’t expect the ride to go ahead as we know from…
Brussels Airlines sees increase of leisure travellers in business class
Brussels Airlines (SN) sees an increase of leisure travellers in business class on short and medium-haul flights, Belgium‘s prime news agency Belga reports. Rising prices in 2024? It seems tourists don’t really cut in their holiday budget.
Dinner Train comes to Belgium
Dinner Train is expanding from the Netherlands to Belgium. The concept is simple, really, while you dine, Dinner Train travels on the rails. The first ride in Belgium is in Saint Nicholas (Sint-Niklaas, Saint-Nicolas), on Friday 1 March 2024.
MUSEUMS IN BELGIUM | museumPASSmusées looks back onto 2023 and forward to 2024
Belgium‘s museumPASSmusées or Museum Pass looks back ont 2023 and forward to 2024. In 2023, museumPASSmusées included over 235 participating museums all over Belgium. In Flanders, the Brussels-Capital Region and Wallonia.
Leo Express wants to operate trains from Ostend, Belgium to Bratislava, Slovakia from 2024 or 2025
Recently, we read quite a few big announcements regarding trans-continental train travel in Europe. We love those, but we’re also apprehensive. Let’s take a look.
BELGIUM | First Limburg Pride on Saturday 5 July 2025
Limburg Pride vzw wants its first pride parade on Saturday 5 July 2025. Which city of Limburg in Belgium will host the very first Limburg Pride, has to be decided. The organisation is currently talking to several possible venues, Bert Brone from Limburg Pride vzw says to GayLive.be.
PROGRAMME | Queer Arts Festival Leuven 2023 from 3 to 25 November
From the 3rd until the 25th of November, Queer Leuven turns Leuven in Flemish Brabant into a hub of queerness, through the Queer Arts Festival Leuven. You can expect music, theatre, performances, exhibitions, films, talks, and workshops.
Leuven ft. the Great Beguinage
In January 2023, Thanh and I went to Leuven to watch Thanh’s niece perform in a play called ‘Wezen‘ (‘Being‘) by Fabuleus at OPEK. Making the best of a Sunday afternoon, we walked around Leuven, visiting the Great Beguinage, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Flanders’ art cities residents still proud of their city, but highlight drawbacks of tourism more often
In the period from 12 May to 13 July 2023, more than 7,000 residents of the five Flemish art cities Antwerp, Leuven, Mechelen (Mechlin), Bruges and Ghent were asked about how they view tourism in their city. Tourism creates a certain pride about the city and its sights and landmarks. However, the negative impact of…