SNCB announces additional trains bound for the coast over the Easter weekend
The SNCB has decided to increase the number of trains to the sea from Friday until next Monday. “Thirty additional
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Flanders
On a day like this in 1943 an 11-year-old boy jumped from a train in Belgium and escaped deportation to Auschwitz
In the autumn of 1928 George Gershwin began writing Embraceable You, a popular jazz song that would become part of
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Bart Moeyaert wins the prestigious Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2019
Bart Moeyaert, the Flemish author and translator of youth literature, poet and novel writer, has won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial
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Are you a fan of Pieter Bruegel? A new exhibition at an open air museum starts on April 6th
2019 marks the 450th anniversary that Pieter Bruegel the Elder died and to mark the occasion, the Bokrijk open-air Museum
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Belgian researchers produce hydrogen using solar panels
A team from the KU Leuven have made a promising technological breakthrough. They have designed a solar panel that produces
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New York Times extols the merits of Ghent
The UNESCO World Heritage City of Bruges is well known both at home and abroad. Its medieval streets and squares,
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A robot designed in Leuven will be picking strawberries in the fields
In September 2016, Focus announced that the Leuven-based R&D company Octinion would shortly be launching the world’s first sophisticated, autonomous,
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The success of Lotus Bakeries in America and Africa
2018 was a fantastic year for Jan Boone, CEO of Lotus Bakeries, and his family. Over the past seven years,
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Two top accommodation addresses in Bruges according to TripAdvisor
If you want to spend the night in a Belgian B&B, two outstanding options are available at ‘Speelmanrei’ and ‘Huis
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Bart De Wever dreams of becoming the “King in the North”
Bart De Wever wishes he could be The King in the North, a fictional character in a fantasy novel by
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