Netherlands

Last year we made a weekend trip to Rotterdam. Living in the countryside, it was a great refreshment to be suddenly in a busy full of modern architecture, people, and boats of all dimensions. We were looking forward in particular to our stay in Hotel New York located on Wilhelmina…

With the current situation that doesn’t allow us to travel or visit cities, we are enjoying nice walks in the gorgeous autumn nature. We already did some nice walks in the forests around where we live, in the Belgian Limburg. And in the beginning of November, we drove direction Oud-Valkenburg…

Have you ever heard of Thorn? It is a little pretty town located in the region of Limburg in the South of the Netherlands, just over the border with Belgium and Germany. For the country it’s quite an unusual town – nearly all the houses and buildings in the city…

When my sister came to visit me at the end of May, we decided she had seen already a big part of Belgium and Steven came up with an idea to take us to see the windmills of Kinderdijk and the closeby town Dordrecht, both located in the South Holland.…

Even though we have a nice Christmas market in Brussels, we love to visit other markets in the neighborhood. Here are my favorite Christmas markets worth a day trip from Brussels. Whether you are in Brussels or anywhere close by, check these out! 😉   Monschau, Germany Monschau is a…

Amsterdam is one of the most charming cities I have ever visited. Beautiful historical center with canal maze, hundreds of small beautiful bridges and narrow streets, houses with large windows so that they catch the most of the sunshine (when there is any), some great museums, cheese, tulips, famous Red Light District…