Deborah O’Donoghue is a reporter at Travel Tomorrow. This British-Irish writer lived in the UK and France before moving to Belgium. She has travelled all over the world and worked in car body repairs, in the best fish ‘n’ chip shop in Brighton, and been a gopher in a comedy club, as well as a teacher. She’s a past winner of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Short Story Prize. Her début novel, Sea of Bones, was published by the UK's Legend Press in 2019 and Droemer Knaur Germany in 2021.
This winter Bruges will be lighting up with the Winter Glow festival, commencing on 25 November and lasting into the New Year. This quintessential medieval European […]
The crash and explosion of Blue Origin’s unmanned rocket in September has once again flagged the dangers of space travel. But the two main rivals in […]
A deadly, brain-eating amoeba usually limited to regions with warm, fresh waters like the southern US has been found as far north as Minnesota and Nebraska. […]
The first commercial spacewalk, scheduled for late 2022, has been postponed to March 2023 at the earliest, the Polaris Program website has announced. The private Polaris […]
If flying taxis and skyports sound like something from Bladerunner or Star Wars to you, then think again. A Korean start-up has raised $9 million in […]
Autumn is here, the trees are wearing their fall colours and footpaths are bedecked with drifts of leaves. Cosiness and comfort hold hands with poignant melancholy. […]
Tervuren barbecue concept SMOAK at the Spanish House (Het Spaans Huis) in the Tervuren Park has won Best Burger in the Benelux 2022, beating over 400 […]
In an almost impossibly romantic rebirth, a number of abandoned Orient Express carriages are being given a new lease of life, reports CNN travel. The vintage […]
Earth’s original space tourist, Dennis Tito, now in his eighties, is planning to return to space and fly around the Moon with Elon Musk’s Starship. Tito […]
Brussels Region is adopting smart traffic light technology in an attempt to address speeding, reports RTBF. Brussels Mobility has announced the installation of around 50 smart […]
All car parks in Brussels serving 10 cars or more must provide electric charging points by 2025, reports Belga. Both office and public car parks are […]
An American-Egyptian tourist has damaged two 2000-year-old sculptures in the Vatican’s Museo Chiaramonti. Il Messagero newspaper reported that around lunchtime last Wednesday a man demanded to […]
A wildfire has damaged Easter Island’s iconic Polynesian ‘Moai’ statues and over 100 hectares of UNESCO World Heritage land, according to officials’ statements. News outlets are […]