In 1992 I was a young lad in Lapland who’d started cycling after failing to grasp the art of flute or music theory.
Monschau is German and means beautiful.
When one has a two week-old newborn at home, what better than booking a 2-night getaway in Monschau without asking the wife?
Forêt de Soignes & Genval & La Hulpe
What is the nature whispering us? Forêt de Soignes or The Sonian Forest is a proper cure for an acute nature deficit. Bois de la Cambre park serves as a decent quick-fix, but only few kilometres away there’s more nature and less people. In Belgium it’s very difficult to escape the man-made structures while outdoors, as the…
Schneeberg, Lower Austria
Wiener Alpen, or the Viennese Alps are the closest ‘real’ mountains only 84 kms from Vienna.
“Are we there yet?”
Amazon Kindle Fire HD 10 tablet as an in-car entertainment solution.
Vienna Autoshow 2019
The Vienna Autoshow takes place every January in Messe Wien, U2 Messe-Prater or Krieau.
Get high in Vienna
If you’re outdoorsy and snow-deprived, the solution is to head off to the Viennese hills.
Abbaye de Villers
Some 40 kms southeast of Brussels in the Brabant Wallon lie the ruins of the Cistercian Abbey of Villers. The abbey was abandoned already in 1796 so the site has been in ruins for a while. As an insult to injury, in 1855 the Leuven-Charleroi railway line was built through the garden. The abbey…
Run to the hills
The Ardennes are a mountain range covering Belgium, Luxembourg and France. Most of it is dense forest but on the Belgian side there are also the high fens, Hautes Fagnes.
Hautes Fagnes: On top of Belgium
In winter months, when the temperatures in Brussels sink to one-digit figures, there could be snow in the Belgian highlands. These High Fens, or Hautes Fagnes in French, are located at some 140 kms from Brussels. By car the region can be reached in two hours, so not only as a weekend getaway, it serves as a…
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