It’s that time of the year again: Antwerp Pride and Antwerp Queer Arts Festival. Pride focuses on the second weekend of August: from Wednesday 10 to Sunday 14. AQAF runs from 5 to 28 August. In 2022, Antwerp Pride turns 15 and looks 15 years into the future under the banner of ‘Queertopia‘. AQAF hasn’t…
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ANTWERP | Part of Scheldepark / Schipperspark / Zuidpark at Gedempte Zuiderdokken now open
On Friday 20 May 2022, a part of the new park at the Gedempte Zuiderdokken (Filled Up Southern Docks) in the Zuid or South area of Antwerp opened to the public. The (future) park is looking for a more catchy name and you can have some input in that process.
ANTWERP | Final design revealed for Scheldt Quays at Nieuw Zuid
Antwerp‘s real estate and urban development agency AG Vespa has revealed the final design for the Scheldt Quays at the Nieuw Zuid or New South area of Antwerp.
Josaphat Park and residential Schaerbeek
Yes, even in 2021 we still lived in pandemic times. Seeing friends means having walks. Bram lives in the Schaerbeek (Schaarbeek) borough of Brussels and in January he took me to Josaphat Park and residential Schaerbeek.
Noorderterras to become Kaailine, Antwerp’s New York-inspired High Line
The Noorderterras or Northern Terrace along the Scheldt Quays in Antwerp will be completely renovated in 2022 and will be laid out as a dune landscape. The so-called ‘Kaailine‘ (yes, some odd mix of the Dutch word kaai for quay and the English word line) is intended to give the walking terrace new grandeur.
ANTWERP | 2023-2024 Park Gedempte Zuiderdokken to have grass and water
Recently the preparatory works for the second part of the park on the Gedempte Zuiderdokken started. That is the construction of the central part above the former Schippersdok. The works will end in the spring of 2023. AG Vespa posted an update.
Discovering Belgium and the Netherlands in COVID times
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…
POTSDAM 2021 | Schloss Sanssouci
Autumn 2021. In theory we could travel to other continents, but destinations we had in mind such as Japan or the United Kingdom were impossible to plan ahead. Instead we organised a rail trip to Eastern Europe, travelling to Berlin, Gdańsk, Wrocław, Karlovy Vary, Pilsen, Bratislava, Poprad, Vienna, Linz and Salzburg. By travelling to Germany,…
Brussels’ Gare Maritime
When Thanh and I planned an outing to Brussels for the Senne Park, the Pannenhuis Park also known as L28 Park and the Maritime Station, the weather forecast announced snow (!), then rain but in the end the weather gods were clement and it was dry and sometime sunny. The date was 11 April 2021.
Brussels’ Pannenhuis Park and L28 Park
When Thanh and I planned an outing to Brussels for the Senne Park, the Pannenhuis Park also known as L28 Park and the Maritime Station, the weather forecast announced snow (!), then rain but in the end the weather gods were clement and it was dry and sometime sunny. The date was 11 April 2021.
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