Did you know you can book an actual Charleroi Safari? A guide will take you on a baffling tour past the city’s crumbling industrial heritage. You’ll see derelict factories, empty cooling towers and abandoned metro stations, and you’ll meet…
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Holy macaroni: another year gone like it wasn’t even there. Believe it or not, but we are now officially more than two full decades away from the magical year 2000. What a downer. We were so young and optimistic…
Antwerp for foodies: four places to stuff yourself for a good cause
Ah, the holidays: what a wonderful time. It’s the perfect moment to reconnect with family and friends, and to quietly reflect on the ups and downs of the rollercoaster that is life. I on the other hand, mostly use…
Best of Borgerhout: four surprising spots in Antwerp’s most exciting district
It’s no real secret: Borgerhout doesn’t have the best of names in certain circles. Most of these circles however – fortunately for us – operate far away from Boho itself, and are mainly filled with folks who won’t leave…
Spa, to most of us, is of course mainly known as the place where spring water was invented – no more drinking from the North Sea for us, suckers – but the influence this tiny Walloon town had on…
After the fully expected success of my first piece on Antwerp – I’m líving off of it friends – it seemed logical to me to come up with an even more spectacular follow up. And by god, it won’t…
The main reason for visiting Koksijde was – honesty is the best policy – of course that I could stay in the country’s only nude hotel and swing my Willy around in public as if there was no tomorrow.…
Call me a fat joke, but I think Liège is one of Belgium’s more remarkable destinations. Everyone arriving at the hypermodern Liège-Guillemins station, only to then having to walk an agonising distance to get to anywhere good, thinks they’ve…
Beat me to death with an old loaf of bread, but until recently I couldn’t tell you much about Koksijde. I knew it was located somewhere on the seaside near the French border and that you could fish for…
Four things you probably didn’t know you could do in Antwerp
Could it be? Is the moment finally here? Will I – after so many exotic stories on strange and distant lands like Taiwan, Singapore and Bruges – finally talk about my very own Antwerp? Sure I will! And it…