Brussels is the “capital of Europe” as well as the capital of Belgium. A city with a thousand-year history, elegant architecture, numerous museums, and a high-quality cultural heritage, it doesn’t seem like a suitable summer destination. What would make you skip beaches, mountains, and exotic locations for a summer vacation in Brussels? Perhaps the fact […]
Flanders is a region that Belgium shares with the neighbouring Netherlands. It occupies the north of the country and surrounds the autonomous region of the capital, Brussels. Belgium is not usually a popular tourist destination; in fact, it is (wrongly!) considered a “flat country,” meaning a boring place. But its northern part has an added […]
Is Belgium “a boring country”? Don’t say it before you book a unique experience in Binche, a little-known town located in the heart of this nation with a dual -Germanic and French- soul. Binche is home to one of the strangest Mardi Gras Carnivals in the world. And while it’s not the big-name celebration of […]
Brussels is a city of fog and rain. For many tourists it is just a cold capital city where politics play their games. Maybe it is a place for old people, for serious and boring subjects. But maybe, well … they are wrong. Brussels is just apparently quiet, it is a lively, many-coloured place, instead. […]
