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10 tips for visiting museums with children: part 1 | Wear Sunscreen
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An historian's view on life, love and leisure. 10 tips for visiting museums with children: part 1. A lot of people comment on the fact that we take our daughter everywhere we go. She quickly turned into a. Since we always felt there is just no truth in the idea that children don’t enjoy travelling. Never expect too much. Still, there are a few things I believe you can do to make the experience easier, more fun, and especially more relaxing. A photograph of the Hermitage in 2013. Again, for most people pr...
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This is what a lunar eclipse feels like | Wear Sunscreen
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An historian's view on life, love and leisure. This is what a lunar eclipse feels like. The lunar eclipse and blood moon as seen in Belgium on 28 September 2015. By now your Facebook and/or Instagram feeds have probably been flooded with photographs of last night’s lunar eclipse and blood moon. I just couldn’t resist adding my own impressions to the multitude of beautiful images already out there. Lunar eclipse as seen in Belgium around 3.55 am on 28 September 2015. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your...
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My bucket list | Wear Sunscreen
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An historian's view on life, love and leisure. Because I feel life’s too short to miss anything, I too have a bucket list. Oh no, not another bucket list! Yes, well, so far it seems more items make it on to the list than are actually transformed into a real live event… But, anyway, here it is (and by the way, there is absolutely no logic to the numbering). Take a balloon ride. Learn how to sail. Go back to Hawaii. Write a children’s book. Write a history book about sewing. Learn how to fly a plain. Cooki...
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Hanami people: why living in Japan is on my bucket list | Wear Sunscreen
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An historian's view on life, love and leisure. Hanami people: why living in Japan is on my bucket list. Hanami at the Ueno Park in Tokyo (2012). Cherry Blossom fun in the Ueno Park in Tokyo where crowds gathered to celebrate Hanami. A recent blogpost by. Thewallinna and other creatures. About how she misses Hanami. So living in Japan is on my bucket list. Would I like to stay in Japan indefinitely? Crowds and Trees at Ueno Park Tokyo (2012). How beautiful the cherry trees looked beside the ugly greyness ...
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Conferences, coffee and jolly good company | Wear Sunscreen
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An historian's view on life, love and leisure. Conferences, coffee and jolly good company. Humboldt University at Unter den Linden in Berlin, Germany: the location of the latest conference I went to in March of this year. Contrary to what one might think, the best thing about conferences is not the exchange of knowledge. The best thing is meeting new people and catching up with old friends. Yes, it is much faster to read an article than to plough through session after session, from the early morning unti...
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5 important things to do in Berlin for the utterly chaotic and helpless | Wear Sunscreen
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An historian's view on life, love and leisure. 5 important things to do in Berlin for the utterly chaotic and helpless. Check your wallet/handbag/backpack at least every 20 seconds! Since the Berlin police department. Despite its name, I didn’t see any police officers there ;-) . Now, first of all, this is a wonderful square, so go and visit it. But beware! Just a bit later, at the other corner of the. Another guy intentionally walked in front of my camera while I was taking a picture. I immediately ...
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Publications | Wear Sunscreen
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An historian's view on life, love and leisure. Articles or book chapters:. From Arenberg to Aarschot and back again: female inheritance and the disputed merger of aristocratic identities’ in: Liesbeth Geevers and Mirella Marini eds,. Dynastic Identity in Early Modern Europe. Rulers, aristocrats and the formation of identities. Politics and Culture in Europe, 1650-1750 (Ashgate, to appear in 2015). With co-author Liesbeth Geevers, ‘Introduction’ in: Liesbeth Geevers and Mirella Marini eds,. Female authori...
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Expats and Belgians: living happily ever after? | Wear Sunscreen
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An historian's view on life, love and leisure. Expats and Belgians: living happily ever after? 17th century view on the ancient palace of the dukes of Burgundy in Brussels by Jan van der Heyden and Adriaen van de Velde. The palace on the Coudenberg was the quintessential meeting place for European diplomats and a true expat heaven for centuries before it was completely destroyed by fire in 1731. Its foundations can still be visited today in the Museum on the Coudenberg. Of the Expat Explorer Survey.
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10 tips for visiting museums with children: part 2 | Wear Sunscreen
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An historian's view on life, love and leisure. 10 tips for visiting museums with children: part 2. I’m going to dive right into this, and continue. With the next 5 tips! Take some toys with you. I’m probably stating the obvious when I say: never leave the house without a toy, a book or whatever else that makes your child happy. I could personally live in a museum, but every now and then everyone just needs to play. Don’t underestimate walking distances. Museums might not always be very large buildings, t...
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Travel Tip: Processions in Belgium | Wear Sunscreen
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An historian's view on life, love and leisure. Travel Tip: Processions in Belgium. The procession in honour of Our-Lady-of-Hanswijk in Mechlin. Going to see processions might be an unlikely travel tip. However, if you want to get to know the ‘real’ culture of Belgium, it’s not enough to eat chocolate and drink beer. No matter how secularised Belgian society might seem today, religion still plays an important, albeit somewhat hidden, role. Alright, I’ll be completely honest, at the ‘. In their attempt to ...
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