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.
A London-based architecture firm has beaten international competition to win the opportunity to re-design Ghent’s contemporary art museum S.M.A.K. and revitalise its relationship with the Belgian […]
Official figures show Belgium’s Flanders and Wallonia regions have recovered from Covid-19’s tourism crisis, but the Belgian capital Brussels is still lagging behind them. Brussels is […]
Luxury cosmetic brand Rituals is bringing its first beach club to the Belgian seaside town of Knokke. The Dutch company will be setting up camp for […]
The Dutch word Ommegang, originally spelled Ommeganck, means moving or walking around. An Ommegang was a common procession in many cities of the medieval Low Countries […]
The Belgian city of Ghent is offering a new app to guide and delight visitors with augmented reality experiences. At three iconic locations in the historic […]
Despite horse-drawn carriages trotting along cobble stone streets between medieval buildings having a certain charm, in this day and age, they have become rather superfluous. Finding […]
Having spent the first thirteen years of life in ‘her beautiful Tervuren’ — Brussels’ answer to Paris’ Versailles — European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen […]
Following major renovation works, the house of Peter Paul Rubens, one of the five great Flemish artists, will be reopening to visitors on 30 August. A […]
The historic site of the Battle of Waterloo in Belgium’s Walloon Brabant is getting ready for its annual commemoration of Napoleon’s last stand and the fight that put […]
Imagine a world without the music of John Coltrane or Charlie “Bird” Parker. Imagine Tom Jobim’s “The Girl from Ipanema” without the lush sounds of Stan […]
Local police and the Brussels Hotels Association (BHA) have come together to improve foreign visitor access to police services in the Belgian capital and raise crime […]
There are so many reasons to get to know and love the Walloon Brabant region, from annual markets in picturesque towns, to flower festivals, to historic […]
Brussels Airport, Zaventem, has confirmed a series of 2024 summer slots for Iceland’s low-fare, start-up airline, Play, in what will be the third year in a […]
Agents from Frontex, the European Union Border and Coast Guard Agency, will be deployed across Belgium to aid local police officers at points of entry into […]