Visiting Sri Lanka has been on our bucket list for many years. I recently went through our travel documents again and it turns out we started researching this trip already in 2018! Due to some unexpected practical/timing issues (we had to renew our passports, which took much longer than expected), we weren’t able to go …
In April of 2023, we headed out in search of paradise. The Seychelles are an island nation in the Western Indian Ocean, consisting of an archipelago of tiny islands and they are also just that: paradise! We started our journey on the largest island, Mahé (an area of only 150km², so “large” is really relative …
In november 2022 we went on our first suprise me trip. For those of you who don’t know the concept, you book a trip with an unknown destination. The Dutch company has several types of trips. We picked New Places, where you can rule out any cities in Europe you’ve been to. They then pick …
April of 2022 will be forever in our memories as the moment we went on our first camper van roadtrip. For previous road trips in Europe, we always had our Fjällräven tunnel tent to rely on. We even once rented a rooftop tent, which turned out to be a one-time experiment though, since the effect …
Winter is coming, autumn is here already. The time for warm sweaters, a cosy fireplace, hot soup and colourful forest walks. And a perfect time to travel as well. Since we both work in education, and our daughter also has to attend school, we are limited to school holidays to satisfy our wanderlust. Last year, …
A few months ago, we started a two-post recap of our 2013 autumn visit to the north of France with an account of our impressions of the medieval city of Provins and the cathedrals of Amiens, Chartres and Reims. The focus of this trip was on relaxation (in the first place) and the discovery of …
The original name of our blog – ourworldheritage.be – resulted from an idea that came up back in 2010, when we both became inspired by a reference work about UNESCO world heritage sites around the world. Our aim at that time, to visit as much of these sites in our joint lifetime, has never been …
The summer of 2020 shall always be remembered as a period of doubt and uncertainty about travel regulations and an almost impossible quest for potential destinations. Going abroad was made practically impossible by policy changes, which were known to change on a daily basis. In Belgium, travel was almost considered a crime by our government, …
I (Maarten) have been to Moscow three times. The last time was in 2006, so it’s fair to say that I waited a bit too long to write this post. We started this version of our blog in 2014 (I think), and I guess at that time I thought my pictures and knowledge of this …
In 1999 I (Annick) booked a group trip to Senegal. Earlier that year I had been in Egypt, and I was ready to discover “the real Africa”. Northern African countries are still quite different in atmosphere and nature to the countries more to the south. Our hotel was located in M’bour, a city about 50 …
