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 row that has been rumbling on between Brussels Airport, Belgian federal ministers and Flanders region over noise pollution around the aviation hub is making the […]
Amidst the echoes of World Toilet Day, an official UN International Day marked on November 19th, one prominent figure drew attention to the vital role of […]
Winter has arrived in Brussels, or at least the grey, wet, windy kind of winter that Brussels gets. The parks that are flooded with picnickers during […]
Unions representing cabin crew at Brussels Airlines issued a strike notice for an “indefinite period” on Thursday, 16 November. The notice takes effect on Thursday, 23 […]
Over the next three years, 2,500 new secure bike parking spots will be created in Brussels. The initiative is part of Regional Mobility Minister Elke Van […]
As Christmas aisles have already appeared in shops and Christmas lights are popping up along city streets, any Christmas enthusiast already knows the opening dates for […]
Belgium might be a small country but for centuries it has been a crossroad of cultures, trade and intellectual exchange. It was also at the epicenter […]
The city of Brussels has registered a record number of bicycle journeys for the year 2023. The Belgian capital has been playing catch-up in the cycling […]
Smoking is about to get more expensive and inconvenient in Belgium, where the government has just approved a suite of anti-tobacco measures set to come into […]
Brussels has won a court challenge over its plan to regulate its tourist accommodation offer, by cracking down on Airbnb landlords. Authorities in the European capital […]
When it comes to Brussels institutions, you could of course talk about Manneken Pis or the Atomium, but for many inhabitants of the Belgian Capital, Madame […]
On Friday, the 20th of October, Something Beautiful, the festival of visual art and poetry, opened in LaVallée in Molenbeek with the unforgettable chorale Equinox de […]
This week, Belgium becomes the second country in Europe to join the “meat-free week” movement, an initiative aimed at persuading people to reduce their meat as […]