Visit: Walk in Bruges – Your private guide in Bruges After more than two months of lockdown, the reopening of the musea is a real treat for the hearts and minds of many art lovers. The musea in Bruges have their weekly closing day on Monday, but the Church of our Lady already reopened today, … Lees verder
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Van Eyck in Bruges
Visit Walk in Bruges – Your private guide in Bruges The museum reopened again on May 18th, the exhibiton has been extended till September 6th. You need to make reservations before your visit on the website of Musea Brugge. You have probably heard about the great Van Eyck exhibition in the MSK in Gent this … Lees verder
OMG, I came closer to Jan van Eyck! An optical revolution in Gent, Belgium
Visit: Walk in Bruges – Your private guide in Bruges This year ‘Gent’ and ‘Jan van Eyck’ will often be named in the same breath. The restoration of the lower and back panels of the Ghent altarpiece, also known as ‘The adoration of the mystic lamb’, that started in 2012 is finally finished and this … Lees verder
The old Saint-Johnshospital where you step 800 years back in time. A place where the world seems to slow down.
Visit: Walk in Bruges – Your private guide in Bruges As an art and history lover, the old Saint-Johns hospital dating back to the 12th century, one of the oldest hospital buildings in Europe, is one of my favorite museums in Bruges. Every tourist visiting Bruges gets at least a glimpse of the outside, but … Lees verder
List of events in Bruges 2020
Visit:Walk in Bruges – Your private guide in Bruges Due to corona, all large events untill the end of August are cancelled. Museums reopen gradually as of May 18th, 2020. You need to make reservations in advance via the website of Musea Bruges. Theatres and cinemas will reopen on July 1st with a maximum of … Lees verder
Potsdam for the second time
We had seen most of the highlights of Potsdam on our first visit a few years ago: see my blogpost: We had seen the Sanssouci park with the Chinese teahouse, Charlottenhof palace, the Roman baths, and the Friedenskirche. We visited the Sanssouci palace, the picture gallery and the Neues Palace on the inside, biked passed … Lees verder
Walk in Bruges – Your private guide in Bruges
The beautiful and romantic city of Bruges is my hometown. Every time I see the amazement in the eyes of the tourists visiting the city I feel privileged to live here. We live just outside ‘the Kruispoort’, and whenever the weather permits, we walk through Bruges as if it were our personal garden of … Lees verder
Berlin for the third time
This year I visited Berlin for the third time. Berlin is like Madrid one of my favorite cities in Europe. This third time around it took a bit more time to prepare an itinerary. We had visited all the usual suspects on our previous visits and it was the middle of winter, so I had … Lees verder
48 hours in Vienna
As a fan of Egon Schiele and Gustav Klimt, Vienna was high on my list of places I must visit. So when my husband asked if I wanted to join him on his trip to Vienna, Schiele immediately sprang to mind. A colleague also mentioned the temporary exhibition of Pieter Breughel the elder that ran … Lees verder
Madrid for the third time
This time, March 2018, we stayed in another neighbourhoud than the previous times. Staying in another district gives a whole new perspective of the city. We stayed in the posh Salamanca area, where Prada, Gucci, Chanel and Armani all have a shop just around the corner. Not that I was in any way interested. On … Lees verder