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
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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
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
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
The medieval Sint-Janshospitaal (Saint Johns hospital) Bruges
Visit:Walk in Bruges – Your private guide in Bruges The 850 year old Saint Johns hospital is a great museum with beautiful works of our Flemish primitive master Hans Memling as a real draw. Visitors can see a great body of work from world renowned artists and also visit a great piece of Belgium heritage … Lees verder
‘A building should tell a story.’ Daniel Libeskind
And that is exactly what the Judische Museum in Berlin built by Daniel Libeskind does. The large grey building, made out of concrete and clad in zinc sheeting, commemorates the numerous lives lost in the holocaust. ‘How long would it take to recite the names of the 6 million people that died?’ was a question … Lees verder
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts or the State Tretyakov Gallery?
Moscow boasts many museums worth visiting, so best make a choice because you won’t be able to visit them all! Before leaving on my trip to Moscow I tried to make a choice between the Pushkin State museum of Fine Arts and the State Tretyakov Gallery. Both musea have more than one building and both … Lees verder
Bruxelles ma belle
Every few months we make a trip to Brussels. There is often an exhibition I do not want to miss, and in May I come for the Queen Elisabeth competition, the world famous classical music competition. We usually combine it with some shopping and a meal at a good restaurant. So after all these years … Lees verder
Authentic Bruges beer, Bourgogne des Flandres, comes back to its birth place.
Visit:Walk in Bruges – Your private guide in Bruges Authentic Bruges. Since April 2016, Bruges is a brewery richer. We used to have only one inner city brewery: Halve Maan, located close to the beautiful beguinage in Bruges. Here they brew the popular beer “Brugse Zot”. Brugse Zot means Fool from Bruges, a historic nickname … Lees verder
The Louvre, Paris
It took us many trips to Paris before visiting The Louvre. We had both visited the Louvre already more than twenty years ago, so memories of it were getting faint. On previous visits the lines in front of the Louvre did not really invite us, and there were always so many other places we hadn’t … Lees verder