Liège in in the eponymous province hosted its first fully-fledged pride the past weekend. Some 3,800 people marched through the streets of the Cité Ardente or Fiery City. Some 10,000 attended Liège Pride as visitors. A success for the organising committee, which announced the dates for next year: Friday 22, Saturday 23 and Sunday 24…
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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.
CHARLEROI PRIDE | Three days of inclusivity and festivities
Today, tomorrow and Saturday Charleroi in the province of Hainaut hosts the Fête de l’Amour, the Festival of Love, aka Charleroi Pride or Pride Carolo. It’s the fifth edition of the Festival of Love and the third edition with a pride parade on Saturday.
Liège Pride 2024 programme and introduction
The city of Liège in the province of Liège will host its first fully-fledged pride weekend on 23, 24 and 25 August 2024. The Liège Pride website has now been launched, with more information and a programme. The organisers expect 5,000 participants.
Arriva Tri-Country Train between Maastricht, Liège and Aachen will start on Sunday 9 June 2024 without OV-chipkaart
From 9 June 2024, Arriva‘s Tri-Country Train will connect Liège (Luik, Lüttich) in Belgium in to Maastricht in the Netherlands and Aachen (Aken, Aix-la-Chapelle) in Germany, after years of preparation. Contrary to previous announcements, the Dutch OV-chipkaart or public transport chip card will not be accepted as a valid ticket on the Belgian leg of…
Limburg Pride 2025 to be hosted by Hasselt on Sunday 13 July
The first ever Limburg Pride will take place on Sunday 13 July 2025, and not on Saturday 5 July. Hasselt, the provincial capital of Limburg, will be its host. Limburg Pride vzw chairman Bert Brone announced the date with pride earlier this week.
Liège Pride 2024 on 23, 24 and 25 August
The news fell off our radar, but Liège will host the first Liège Pride on the weekend of 23, 24 and 25 August 2024. It will include a pride parade, which is a first for Wallonia , according to French-language Belgian public broadcaster RTBF. But they forget the pride parade in Sankt Vith in the…
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.
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.