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…
ANTWERP | 570,000 visitors in 2025: KMSKA sets new record in third year after reopening
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp or Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (KMSKA) closed 2025 with over 570,000 visitors, a new record. The opening year in 2023 attracted almost 535,000 visitors.
NORTH CAROLINA | Wilmington Riverwalk
Easter 2025. I’m visiting my uncle and aunt in Leland, North Carolina. It’s my first trip of two to the United States in 2025. I haven’t seen them live since February 2020 just before the first lockdown and I haven’t travelled to this area since 2019. I’m flying with SAS and Delta. The itinerary: Brussels…
Antwerp’s municipal museums surpass 2 million visitors in 2025
The visitor numbers for Antwerp‘s municipal museums have been tallied. More than 2 million visitors once again found their way to the exhibitions, permanent collections, and numerous projects in the various museums in 2025. A record number.
Trenitalia plans Paris-area maintenance centre to support pan-European services, including potential London links
FS Group / Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane / Trenitalia is moving forward with strategic investments to support its expanding international high-speed rail ambitions, including plans to build a maintenance centre near Paris to simplify operations and support future services beyond France. BMFTV announced this in the margin of financial news.
REVIEW | Mercure Blankenberge
It’s in the middle of the summer of 2025 and we were invited to the wedding of friends. They decided to host their wedding in the Belgian Coastal city of Blankenberge. As this is quite a trek from our home town of Antwerp, it wasn’t feasible to return home after the wedding so we decided…
ANTWERP | Planting of trees means Zurenborg – Borgerhout Spoorpark is on schedule for summer of 2027
The relocation of a key technical building in 2025 has cleared the final obstacle for the creation of Antwerp’s new Spoorpark (Railway Park), which is set to open in the summer of 2027. The project will establish a green, two-hectare link between Zurenborg and the Luitenant Naeyaertplein in Borgerhout, running alongside the railway tracks. The…
Snälltåget to run Stockholm – Malmö – Copenhagen – Hamburg day trains from May 2026
Private rail operator Snälltåget from Sweden is set to make a major push into international rail travel in 2026, unveiling in November 2025 a new daytime service linking Stockholm, Malmö, Copenhagen and Hamburg, while also committing to expand its well-known night trains to Germany.
TOKYO | Asakusa ft. Sensō-ji Temple
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…
BELGIUM | Brussels Airlines set to launch new ‘Belgian Icon’ livery on 12 February
Belgium‘s main airline Brussels Airlines is preparing to introduce a new aircraft in its well-known ‘Belgian Icon‘ series, with the official unveiling scheduled for 12 February 2026, Thibault Lapers‘ Mobilithib and FlightLevel.be report.