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Belgium: Liege by Bike

Posted on May 6, 2022 | Leave a comment

It’s Spring, Let’s Go Out!

We decided to discover the city center of Liege by bike with a guide! How to plan a visit with a bicycle guide: contact Liege city tourist office, where you can also book bicycles. Ours weren’t electric: if you’re not used to cycling, prefer electric bikes because the distances are long and sometimes your guide can be in a hurry (lol!). What a fantastic breath of fresh air! Starting with the historic center, then its canals and parks: mixing history and nature! After the guided bike ride, we choose to continue alone “on a bicycle”.

We stopped for a long time at the museum of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. Fascinating: galleries with large mammals! Then we went to two exhibitions in different areas of the city, including one at La Bouverie, the modern and contemporary art museum. And if you want to extend your long day in Liège, with a short romantic weekend: here is a very very charming boutique hotel, the Hotel Neuvice. Beautiful modern decoration in a historic residence, with an efficient and very friendly team.

                                  Pictures Below : Liege by Bike

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Luxemburg: Arty Weekend in Esch-sur-Alzette

Posted on April 1, 2022 | Leave a comment

A Different Esch

How to discover this destination with a mining tradition which this year is the European Capital of Culture? For a weekend, visit the third city of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette. The first day: consult the cultural program of the week on Esche 2022 and put on your most comfortable sneakers to attend the exhibitions, events or concerts that take place in the different districts of the city.

As examples : on the “Day 1” photomontage (below), 1., the rehearsal of a show at the National Museum of the Resistance, with its impressive architecture which will reopen at the end of April. 2., the Escher Theater. 3., 4. and 5., frescoes and graffiti in and near the cultural center Kulturfabrik, where you can also attend concerts. The second day: nature and history with the visit to an old mine and train museum at Minett Park Fond de Gras. From May, you can experience the Train 1900 (from Pétange to Fond-de-Gras and vice versa) or the Mining Train ‘Minièresbunn’ (Fond-de-Gras – Lasauvage – Fond-de-Gras).

Here is an original accommodation, the Château de Clemency: an unusual warm guest house in a small castle from 1660 that will delight decor maximalists. The Sherlock Holmes suite looks like a film set: with its living room like a cabinet of curiosities including a collection of pipes, stuffed animals flying over the room and in the entrance, the coats and caps of Holmes and Watson. A journey through time ! 18 Rue de l’Eglise, 4965 Käerjeng, Luxemburg, Phone: +352 51 26 52 60.

                             The pictures of the weekend below

Day 1: Exhibitions, Galleries, Museums

Day 2: Minett Park Fond de Gras

Where To Sleep: Château de Clemency

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ESCH 2022

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Many thanks to the Esch Tourism Board for this beautiful invitation. As always, these are my opinions.

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Zagreb, Croatia: Museum of Broken Relationships

Posted on August 4, 2013 | Leave a comment

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One day in Zagreb

and I don’t have time for several museums, if I want to take the pulse of the city! I want to visit one truly unique museum, the confidential brand new Museum of Broken Relashionships. Let’s talk about heartbrokens, lol! So if you also have a very limited time in the city, it’s THE museum that everyone should experience!

A gem of humor (sometimes ironic) about a disappointed romantic relationships. Who can pretend having never been disillusioned with an ex? You can even see the wedding album of an happy ex, donated to the museum (wow!). The concept is fantastic and  “Get lucky” (ie. Daft Punk). First, you send an object that “represents” your broken relationship. The object must be accompanied by an explanatory legend. Then the objects and stories that passed the selection, are exposed. The exhibition spaces are stunning in a renovated historic building.

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Some objects detonate and surprise

(pictures 5 and 6). Reading some stories, lots of fun. Most protagonists whose purpose is breaking presentation, has a lot of humor (pictures 4 and 7)! Between another contemporary art museum showing very pretentious works (often disappointing, if not confusing) and this fresh intimate museum full of self-mockery: do not hesitate! 

And I am not sponsored by the museum, it’s just a real nice surprise as I enjoy them! I had a tremendous moment there. And to extend the stealth and pleasurable moment of the “revenge“, check the small museum boutique. Picture 1: an irresistible chocolate to offer to the one who deserve it, LOL! Lucky you!                        

Photos : Mademoiselle Le K – copyright 2013, tous droits réservés. 

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