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Trip By Trip & Sidetrack
Exploring Wilmington, NC and its surroundings.
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European Sleeper sets out vision for 40-route night train network across Europe, including London.
@thibaultlapers.be @mobilithib.eu
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‘The Antwerp Six’ exhibition at the Antwerp fashion museum MoMu.
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How to spend a day in Tallinn
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The NMBS / SNCB will definitively end the sale of train tickets on board from 1 July 2026.
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‘Vanilla’ is not a self-help book, it’s not a treatise on sexual behaviour of men who have sex with men (MSM). It’s a fun, well written novel which will make you think of your prejudices. @fotostrips.bsky.social
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Even as Antwerp’s diamond trade suffers one of the most severe downturns in its modern history, the City of Antwerp continues to promote diamonds as a cornerstone of its identity and a key tourist attraction.
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Dutch passenger advocate Rover calls for EuroCity to go from Antwerp to Eindhoven instead of Rotterdam.
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Trip By Trip & Sidetrack
Trip By Trip & Sidetrack
#Belgium has postponed the registration of biometric data – including fingerprints and facial scans – for non-EU nationals under the European Entry/Exit System #EES.
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GoVolta announced it has secured a “more favourable than expected” timetable for its new train service between Amsterdam and Paris. It expects ticket sales to begin in mid-April, ahead of the launch in mid-Dec. The service would bypass Brussels by going via Ghent.
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Trip By Trip & Sidetrack
Trip By Trip & Sidetrack
Trip By Trip & Sidetrack
GoVolta has announced that it has secured a “more favourable than expected” timetable for its new train service between Amsterdam in the Netherlands and Paris in France, Treinreiziger.n…
In preparation for an interview for Antwerp Pride Magazine of Dutch author Ype Driessen (49), I read his first text-only novel ‘Vanilla’. Driessen is known for his photo comics (Fotostr…
Even as Antwerp’s diamond trade suffers one of the most severe downturns in its modern history, the City of Antwerp continues to promote diamonds as a cornerstone of its identity and a key tourist …
The NMBS / SNCB will definitively end the sale of train tickets on board from 1 July 2026. The National Belgian Railway Company has officially confirmed the decision. From that date, passengers wil…
Easter 2025. I’m visiting my uncle and aunt in Leland, North Carolina. It’s my first trip of two to the United States in 2025. I haven’t seen them live since February 2020 just before the first loc…
Belgium has postponed the registration of biometric data – including fingerprints and facial scans – for non-EU nationals under the European Entry/Exit System (EES). The decision was taken by Inter…
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August 2025. We’re travelling to the Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and more specifically their respective capitals Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius. Are they interconnected by rail? Yes, b…
European night train operator European Sleeper is aiming to build a vast network of overnight rail services across Europe, with plans for up to 40 routes over the next two decades.
Forty years after their breakthrough in London in 1986, an exuberant exhibition dedicated to the Antwerp Six has opened at the ModeMuseum or MoMu fashion museum Antwerp.
In the Netherlands, passenger association Rover has responded positively to the proposed 2027 timetable by Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS), but is urging several improvements, including the introductio…
