Text: Claire Lessiau & Marcella van Alphen
Photographs: Claire Lessiau & Marcella van Alphen
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8 insider’s fun facts you probably did not know about Bruges
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8 insider’s fun facts you probably did not know about Ghent
Text: Claire Lessiau & Marcella van Alphen
Photographs: Claire Lessiau & Marcella van Alphen
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1. The spitting fire dragon on the belfry [for real!]
Lots of stories surround the fire spitting dragon which has been protecting Ghent from the top of its belfry since 1377.
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5 fun facts about Genoa you did not know about
Text: Marcella van Alphen
Photographs: Marcella van Alphen & Claire Lessiau
1. And you thought blue jeans came from the States?
By mid-16th century more than half of the population of Genova worked in the silk industry. The craftmanship in the city-state was so renown that exclusive royal garments were often made in Genoa. Collaborating with the city of Lucca where silk was produced, Genoa functioned as trading post and benefited hugely from this trade. However, these precious clothes were unaffordable for common people, let alone sailors.
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Never thought I would need a notice to go to the toilets, until… Japan!
Article updated on May 23, 2020
Text & photos: Marcella van Alphen
I push on a button: a water splash starts. Wrong button… Another one: now it is a different kind of splash. Still the wrong button! Will I ever make it? I start panicking Keep travelling!
Can you solve the Swedish riddle?
Are you familiar with the riddle of the wolf, the goat and the cabbage on one bank of a river? It goes like this: you have one boat and you need to transfer these three safely and each in one piece to the other bank, and obviously if Keep thinking!
