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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Four days in Alghero, Sardinia
February 24, 2020 My husband had been invited to a conference in Alghero, Sardinia and I decided to join him. It was for us a trip down memory lane. Thirty years ago we had visited Sardinia together as uni-students. We remembered Sardinia as a quiet island, where tourism had only reached some of the coastal … Lees verder
Museum Saint-Johns’ hospital where you step 800 years back in time and where the world slows 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
Potsdam for the second time
August 10, 2019 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 … Lees verder
Chocolates, Waffles, Beer, Fries and traditional biscuits
Visit: Walk in Bruges – Your private guide in Bruges Most tourists will consume at least one of these five specialties when visiting Brugge, and you should, because they are all typical Belgian, and we are proud of it. We Belgians love chocolates, waffles, beers, fries and speculoos. But we are also picky when it … 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
January 17, 2019 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, … Lees verder
48 hours in Vienna
December 27, 2018 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 … Lees verder
(Public) transport Bruges – How to get to Bruges and how to get around.
Visit:Walk in Bruges – Your private guide in Bruges Although the best way by far to visit Bruges is on foot or on a bike, many tourists have questions about the public transport system in Bruges and on their way to Bruges. So here is a guide to help you along! There is no airport … Lees verder
Picos de Europa Walk: PR PNPE 24: Circular walk from Fuente De cable car down to parking lot of the cable car
July 5, 2018 It was maybe a bit overconfident of ourselves to make this walk our first, but the weather looked great on our first day and looked less stable on the next days, so we just went for it. The guidebook said the walk would take us 4 hours and 30 minutes, so that … Lees verder