REVIEW | Trenitalia Intercity Notte in Superior (Excelsior) Class

March 2025. We’re embarking on a train trip to Sicily. We fly from Brussels Airport to Leonardo da Vinci Rome Fiumicino Airport with ITA Airways. Then we take an Intercity Notte sleeper train by Trenitalia from Roma Termini Railway Station across Italy to Syracuse. Yes, the train is loaded on a ferry to cross the…

Introducing the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

We haven’t travelled to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg since 2018 and 2019, but in January 2025 we returned to get a taste of the Alstom Coradia Stream HC which the Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois (CFL) runs under the name Série 2400. The Coradia Stream HC was a candidate to become NMBS…

ANTWERP | Remains of Calvinist temple found in Rubens Garden

The Rubens House is currently undergoing a thorough renovation. The redesign of the garden started at the beginning of this year. First, large-scale earthworks took place for the installation of buffer tanks, infiltration basins and the fountain. An excellent opportunity for archaeologists to conduct research into what once happened in this garden. After the goatskin…