The City of Antwerp has launched a call for a new concession holder for the large shell space beneath the railway bridges of Antwerp-Central Railway Station, currently occupied by Club Ampère. The entrance to the venue is located at Simonsstraat 21, and the site forms part of the Kievit II urban development project that significantly…
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NETHERLANDS | Arriva will not launch the Groningen to Paris service in 2026
Dutch private railway operator Arriva, which has been planning to launch open-access services between the Netherlands and Paris in France, via Brussels in Belgium, will not put this project into operation in 2026. The information was first revealed by Thibault Lapers on his Mobilithib blog, based on statements from the company itself.
Trenitalia plans Paris-area maintenance centre to support pan-European services, including potential London links
FS Group / Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane / Trenitalia is moving forward with strategic investments to support its expanding international high-speed rail ambitions, including plans to build a maintenance centre near Paris to simplify operations and support future services beyond France. BMFTV announced this in the margin of financial news.
A London-bound Eurostar terminal at Antwerp-Central? Highly unlikely!
A new use is being sought for the vacant space of Plopsa Station, located at the rear of Antwerp-Central Railway Station. Belgium‘s national train operator NMBS / SNCB owns the space and says it is open to all ideas. For Antwerp’s Alderman for Tourism and Mobility, Koen Kennis (N-VA), this opens the door to an…
Year of Fashion to honour legendary Antwerp Six designers
Antwerp will celebrate fashion in all its facets in 2026, marking the 40th anniversary of the international breakthrough of the Antwerp Six with a major exhibition and a city-wide fashion festival. The initiative is being launched by MoMu – Fashion Museum Antwerp, the Flanders District of Creativity and the City of Antwerp, in collaboration with…
PARIS | Boulevard de Sébastopol – Tour Saint-Jacques – Institut du monde arabe – Le Remontalou – Coulée verte René-Dumont & Viaduc des Arts – Place de la Bastille – Rue Pierre Seel – Hôtel de Ville – Rue des Mauvais-Garçons – Place des Vosges
On Thursday 11 December 2025, six months after opening and one month after closing on 11 January 2026, I travelled to Paris in France for the ‘Le mystère Cléopâtre‘ or ‘The Cleopatra Mystery‘ exhibition at the Institut du monde arabe (Institute of the Arab World). An excuse to visit the Light City, even if it…
Trenitalia (FS Group) and Certares agree strategic partnership to expand international high-speed rail operations
The Railways of the Italian State, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (Gruppo FS / FS Group), better known under the brand Trenitalia, signed at the end of December 2025 a strategic partnership agreement with American global travel investment firm Certares aimed at accelerating the development of international high-speed rail services, with an initial focus on France…
2026: Invisible?
August 2025. While staying at the Radisson Collection Astorija in Vilnius in Lithuania, we want to order something from the breakfast menu. But the table next to us, populated by a ‘very present’ group of eight or ten people gets priority. They’re treated as being important.
Eurotunnel freezes UK rail investments over “unsustainable” tax hike
Eurotunnel, the operator of the Channel Tunnel, has halted its future investments in the United Kingdom, warning that what it calls unsustainable taxation levels have made any new projects non-viable.
REVIEW | All Nippon Airways (ANA), Business Class, Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner to Tokyo
Autumn 2025. We – Sam and Danny, Michel and Wille, and Timothy – are travelling to Japan for a quite classic tour of the Land of the Rising Sun. We are flying separately as we used miles. On the planning: Tokyo, Kanazawa, Shirakawa, Osaka, and Expo 2025, Hiroshima, Himeji, Miyajima, Kyoto, Nara, Nagoya, Hakone, and…