Idea: Indian Summer

Year after year, in September and October, trees’ leaves turn all shades of yellow, red and brown. This phenomenon, which we call Autumn, forms a great subject of photographs that include some minimum amount of landscape. In the northeast of the United States of America autumn can look really spectacular. I’ve been inspired by photos seen on the excellent railpictures.net website. Check out a few examples here: A … Continue reading Idea: Indian Summer

Very soon: end of the EuroCity trains

After almost 29 years, the Belgian EuroCity trains will ride a last time on April 4th 2016. On May 31st 1987, the EuroCity network was established as a successor for the TEE network. The EC-trains also contained 2nd class coaches – compared to their first class only predecessors. In order to be labeled EuroCity, the trains need to respond to a certain number of quality … Continue reading Very soon: end of the EuroCity trains

Switch-over at Qatar

T also stands for travel. Between the train-related posts, I will also publish some travel-related stuff. Today, episode 1. In May 2015 I travelled to South-East Asia. For less than 500€ and 16 hours of time, Qatar Airways was the obvious choice to get from Brussels to Bangkok. This included a change-over at Hamad International Airport, Doha, Qatar. This giant airport, and Qatar Airways hub, was opened in … Continue reading Switch-over at Qatar