June 2024. For our first visit to the United States of America since the COVID-19 pandemic, we flew to New Orleans via London Heathrow with British Airways. After two days of exploring NOLA, Amtrak‘s Crescent overnight train brought us from Louisiana to New York, where we we stayed one night only before flying home.
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ZOMER VAN ANTWERPEN 2024 | Programme and highlights for 30 years of ‘Summer of Antwerp’ festival
Zomer van Antwerpen (ZVA), or Summer of Antwerp, now exists thirty years. In these three decades, I have only rarely attended activities or performances because they often clashed with my work schedule, travel plans or were sold out. Still, ZVA has been a fixture of Antwerp summers and is very popular. This year the festival…
Antwerp number 1 of 40 most exciting cities to visit in 2024
For the British newspaper of record The Sunday Times, Antwerp in Belgium is the number one exciting city to visit in 2024.
Night train advocates: VAT exemptions would result in much more attractive sleeper ticket prices
“A family of four making a return journey from Brussels to Vienna can save up to 139 euros on their night train ticket, or 15% of the original price”, Back On Track Belgium argues. On this return journey, the train saves 1.8 tonnes of CO2e compared with air travel for the whole family, or almost…
Antwerp City Hall freed from scaffolding
After three years, the front of Antwerp City Hall has been freed from its scaffolding. Renovation works are far from finished though.