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…
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Antwerpen Proeft 2026 reveals first 25 top participants, opens ticket sales on 29 November
Antwerp’s gastronomy loving crowd will once again gather during the Ascension weekend of 2026, when Antwerpen Proeft (Antwerp Tastes) returns to Waagnatie Expo & Events from Thursday 14 to Sunday 17 May 2026.
Visit Antwerp in a day or two
On 22 June 2025, Annabelle Thorpe named in The Guardian our hometown of Antwerp in Belgium as one of the ‘Five of the best European city breaks for summer‘. Thank you for that shoutout. But ask myself. How to visit Antwerp? And how long?
There’s more than one way to enjoy a cruise
July 2024. Steve and I are cruising on the Norwegian Getaway, a Breakaway class ship by Norwegian Cruise Line or NCL. Interestingly, our stay on board happened shortly after the Getaway paid a visit to the dry dock for some refurbishments. The route? Piraeus, which is the port of Athens in Greece; followed by Mykonos;…
EUROPEAN UNION | Pride events do raise awareness for LGBTQIA+
As more than 200 organisers of LGBTQIA+ pride events gather in Portugal for their biggest ever annual conference this weekend, new data from the European Commission shows that awareness of EuroPride is thought to be at an all time high.
EuroPride 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal
Lisbon in Portugal has been chosen as the host city of EuroPride in 2025.
Lessons learned after Royal Caribbean’s Northern Europe cruise with Serenade of the Seas
July was a special month. It was the first time in forever I went on a trip in a July, as it is the prerogative of straight couples with children to take a leave in July – but mostly because I finally went on a cruise.
PHOTOS | Surprising Riga in Latvia
After starting our cruise in Stockholm, a first stop in Helsinki, two days in Saint Petersburg and a day in Tallinn, Riga was the last stop of the Baltic cruise with Royal Caribbean‘s Serenade of the Seas.
First cruise experience – Baltic Sea with Serenade of the Seas by Royal Caribbean International
It was long overdue. Going on a sea cruise had or has been on my travel wish list for a long time. I have quite a few friends who are avid cruisers and I really wanted to taste it. So how did I experience my first time cruising?
REVIEW | Flying SAS transatlantic
After seeing some travel vlogs about travelling across the USA with Amtrak Timothy and me decided to try it out for ourselves in 2016. As we would be flying to Chicago to start our trip and flying back from Los Angeles at the end we had to look at some more expensive ‘open-jaw’ (meaning flying…
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