On Sunday 13 July 2025, Limburg Pride vzw, the organising committee, held its first Limburg Pride in Hasselt. A date for next year has been chosen: Sunday 12 July 2026. The host city or commune has yet to be chosen.
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Antwerp hotels fully booked ahead of Ed Sheeran, Drake and Antwerp Pride weekend
The 18th edition (since 2008) of Antwerp Pride takes place from Wednesday 6 to Sunday 10 August 2025 in Antwerp. This year’s theme is “Do not just march! Listen. Understand. Commit”. Prides are a mix of celebration – parties – and activism and advocacy. For the 2025 edition, the organising committee focuses on belonging. Belonging…
BELGIUM | Fête du Rail at Rétrotrain, Saint-Ghislain
August 2024. Two weekends in a row, we experienced some Belgian railway heritage. On the 11th, we went to Baasrode-Noord for the Dendermonde – Puurs Steam Railway or Stoomtrein Dendermonde-Puurs over line 52. On the 17th, we travelled all the way to Saint-Ghislain for a special ride over freight railway line 100, organised by Le…
TONGEREN | Gallo-Roman Museum – the permanent collection
Tongeren (Tongres in French) in Limburg is the oldest city in Belgium, founded by the Romans in 10 AD as Atuatuca Tongrorum. Now it’s a city of 32,000 people and home of the Gallo-Roman Museum (Gallo-Romeins Museum). I hadn’t been since childhood. But until September 2024 the museum hosts the ‘Antiquity in Colour‘ exhibition so…
MONS | Auguste Rodin exhibition at Beaux-Arts Mons / CAP museum
Until 18 August 2024, the Beaux-Arts Mons museum or Museum of Fine Arts of Mons is hosting an exhibition on French sculptor François Auguste René Rodin. The exhibition brings together famous and lesser-known work by the artist. Thanh and I visited in May.
GALLO-ROMAN MUSEUM TONGEREN | ‘Antiquity in Colour’ exhibition until 2 June 2024
Tongeren (Tongres in French) in Limburg is the oldest city in Belgium, founded by the Romans in 10 AD as Atuatuca Tongrorum. Now it’s a city of 32,000 people and home of the Gallo-Roman Museum (Gallo-Romeins Museum). I hadn’t been since childhood. But until 2 June 2024 the museum hosts the ‘Antiquity in Colour‘ exhibition…
VIDEO | The Montzen Line
The Montzen Line is usually not used by passengers trains, but it is used as deviation from Liège to Welkenraedt in Belgium. In 2021, we had the opportunity to travel on Rail Line 24, it’s official name.
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