Christian Nielsen is a journalist and keen tourism industry watcher based in Brussels. He writes pretty much anything that takes his fancy, from the woes of travelling with kids to the latest ‘impact investing’ developments in Europe. But most of his output these days is in EU affairs, sci-tech writing and marcoms.
Hot on the trail of D-Day soldiers bound for Germany, Ernest Hemingway’s dash through Belgium is not the stuff of bullfights or gallant tales of the […]
Esperanto is an artificial language invented in 1887 by Dr Ludovic Lazarus Zamenhof, a Polish polyglot who wanted to create a universal second language to promote […]
Gustave Le Bon is considered to be the first Frenchman to visit Nepal. His book ‘Voyage au Népal’ published in 1886, provides a general overview of the […]
The European Council, currently chaired by the Slovenian Presidency, is proposing the creation of a streaming platform similar to Netflix for Europeans to access audiovisual content […]
Braga is one of the oldest and picturesque Portuguese cities. Its heritage goes back to Roman times, when “Bracara Augusta” was built more than 2,000 years […]
The world fastest man has decided to try his luck doing something else. After leaving athletics, the Jamaican Usain Bolt had two small adventures in soccer, […]
Today, more than 2,500 languages are considered in danger and several of them are very close to disappearing. On its website, UNESCO provides a list of […]
Two years after an exciting and promising 2019 edition, and at the end of a long tunnel of cancellations, postponements, closures and impossibility for cultural events […]