Posts Tagged ‘
Belgium ’
Dec 23rd, 2020 |
By The Editor
If travel restrictions are removed for Easter it might be hard not to bump into an escaping Brit wherever you go in the world!
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: Belgium, coronavirus spread, France, Ireland, Netherlands, spain
Oct 8th, 2020 |
By The Editor
The travel industry has urged governments to support regional no-go areas rather than blocking off whole countries. This thinking grew in intensity after the UK blocked the whole of Portugal rather than the regions where the pandemic was strongest. So the Algarve, the Azores and Madeira suffered from not having British tourists despite having a low incidence. The same happened in Spain where the Canaries and the Balearics had few cases compared to the mainland. Now countries are opting for more regional targeting so Britons
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Posted in Travel rumblings |
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Tags: Belgium, Germany, quarantine restrictions for travellers
May 1st, 2020 |
By The Editor
Whatever happens abroad is being closely watched in the UK and Ireland to help decide when we might be able to re-open museums again.
Posted in Travel news |
Comments Off on May: the month of change?
Tags: Belgium, China, coronavirus, Florida, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, museum re-openings, Texas, USA
Feb 11th, 2018 |
By The Editor
From 22 to 25 February 2018, at nightfall, the city is celebrating Bright Brussels, Festival of Lights which will light up a number of districts in the centre of Brussels.
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: Belgium, Bright Brussels - Festival of Lights, Brussels
Jun 7th, 2016 |
By Mohammed Reza Amirinia
Reza re-visits Brussels after the terrorist activities and finds a city calm and going about its business despite the increased security.
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: Art & Design Atomium Museum (ADAM), Atomium, Belgium, Brussels, Brussels City Hall, Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert, Grand-Place, MIMA, Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Wiels Gallery
May 31st, 2016 |
By The Editor
New figures from Visit Britain show that visitors from abroad last year did venture outside of London with the north west of England seeing a 22% increase in visitors.
Posted in Travel news |
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Tags: Belgium, China, France, incoming visitors to UK, Irish Republic, north-west of England, USA
Mar 23rd, 2016 |
By The Editor
How do we make more secure airports, major train stations and ports, all places that visitors will gather in large numbers?
Posted in Travel rumblings |
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Tags: Belgium, Brussels, DAESH, IS, tourist terrorism, Zaventum
Mar 16th, 2016 |
By Kaye Holland
Gavin Stone, a former ‘intelligence operative’, has written a book revealing the tips and tricks of travelling “next to nothing”. Result! Here the Wolverhampton-born author, who has stayed in super yachts and castles, shares some of his experiences with Just About Travel readers
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: Africa, America, Asia, Belgium, Berlin, Czech Republic, Europe, Florida, France, Gavin Stone, New York, passport, spain, Tenerife, Travel, travel tips, USA, Vietnam, yachts
Oct 4th, 2015 |
By Natasha Blair
Natasha visits Ghent and finds that its historical centre survived the war almost intact.
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: Belgium, Castle of the Counts, Ghent, Ghent Jazz Festival, Gravensteen, rabot
Sep 4th, 2015 |
By Natasha Blair
Natasha finds that Liège and its surrounding area make for an interesting weekend away.
Posted in Travel destinations |
Comments Off on Liège, an undiscovered corner of Belgium
Tags: Belgium, Francorchamps, Grand Curtius, Liege, spa
Jul 7th, 2015 |
By Mohammed Reza Amirinia
I arrived in Mons in May to witness how the city transforms itself into a mass celebratory ritual on the weekend of Trinity Sunday during the Doudou festival.
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: Belgium, Collegiate Church of St Waudru, Doudou Festival, Ducasse de Mons, Mons, Wallonia
Jun 4th, 2015 |
By Robin Nowacki
Robin takes a break in Antwerp, a city dominated by Rubens
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: Antwerp, Belgium, Flanders, Rubens
Feb 21st, 2015 |
By Mohammed Reza Amirinia
Reza visits Mons in Belgium, one of this year’s European Capitals of Culture.
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: BAM -Musée des Beaux-arts, Belgium, Envolée Chromatique, Mons, Mons International Congress Xperience
Dec 5th, 2014 |
By Anna Maria Espsäter
Forget all about sprouts and EU headquarters – Anna Maria Espsäter seeks out the fun, calorific side of Brussels.
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: Belgium, Brussels, Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert, Laurent Gerbaud, Le Cercle des Voyageurs, Pierre Marcolini, The Chocolate Village, Wittamer
Nov 3rd, 2014 |
By Adrian Lawes
It’s World Travel Market time. That means that tens of thousands of people have descended on Docklands in the east of London to sell their destinations to British tour operators and travel agents.
Posted in Travel news |
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Tags: Battle of Waterloo, Belgium, Ferrari Museum, France, Greece, Italy, Turkey, World Travel Market, WW1
Jul 26th, 2014 |
By Adrian Lawes
Adrian, who has decided not to apply for the job as Chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund, (but you can) has seventeen stories from the week to warn, suggest or remind you about the events of the last week.
Posted in Travel news |
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Tags: Acadia National Park, Belgium, Brighton, Brighton Sand Sculpture Festival, Dubrovnik. Croatia, Flower Carnival, Flower Carpet, Hungary, Turkey
May 22nd, 2014 |
By Kaye Holland
Neil Henderson of top rated adventure tour company, Flying Kiwi, on travelling with children, Tonga and why he loves the land of the long white cloud
Posted in Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: Belgium, England, Europe, Flying Kiwi, Ghent, guidebooks, Japan, Land of the long white cloud, Luxemburg, Neil Henderson, New Zealand, Tonga
Nov 10th, 2013 |
By The Editor
Next year will be the anniversary of the start of WWI. A number of countries intimately involved in the war will hold special commemorations and one will be Belgium, the country which, when invaded by Germany, caused the UK to declare war.
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: Belgium
Nov 11th, 2011 |
By Cathrene Rowell
Starting today, the chocolate festival in Brugge begins: Choco-Laté is a chocolate festival like no other. It is truly the place to go for everyone who is mad about chocolate.
Posted in Travel destinations |
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Tags: Belgium, Brugge, Choco-Laté
Nov 7th, 2011 |
By adrienne
When it comes to fabulous weather and wildlife, there is nowhere like Namibia, says Adrienne. Over the next few weeks, she will be sharing her notes from Namibia – arguably Africa at its most authentic – exclusively with CD-Traveller readers.
Posted in Travel destinations, Travel tips & opinions |
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Tags: Africa, Belgium, Etosha Pan, Lake Otjikoto, Namibia, Okakeujo, Rietfontein