Museums

  • exploring netherlands: the hague

    we spent our first day in the netherlands daytripping it north of rotterdam to the hague which sits alongside the north sea on the western coast.  its population is nearly half a million and is a very popular summer destination…

  • brussels aka the land of comic strips

    prior to visiting the tintin museum we also stopped by the comicstrip museum in brussels.  it has a section devoted to tintin but also touches on many other belgian based characters, the smurfs taking another section for themselves. it was…

  • a daytrip to musee herge: a must for all tintin fans

    i don’t know how many museums we had been to by this point in our trip but that didnt stop me from planning out a day to visit musee herge once we got into brussels.  on our previous trip to…

  • getting our tourist on in brussels

    while we passed many hours in brussels stuffing our faces with things that made us smile we also squeezed in some sightseeing.   i had my eyes set on musee herge otherwise known as the tintin museum 🙂  the creator of…

  • the kgb cornerhouse: latvia’s torture chamber

    our daytrips in riga were sidelined for the most part due to weather but one sight we did get to check out in the city was the kgb headquarters, otherwise known as the ‘kgb cornerhouse’.  this exhibit opened in 2014…

  • weekly recap #25 – riga & brussels

    q. current home/addy where i stayed (neighbourhood) and how long a. riga (centrs, 5 nights), brussels (sablon, 3 nights) q. favourite meal a. toss up.  either domini canes in riga for its presentation and otherwordly lavender & berries creme brulee…

  • zagreb’s museum of broken relationships

    another super cool museum stop on this trip was the museum of broken relationships in zagreb. it might sound depressing but it was less about chronicling the demise of relationships but instead about focusing on the symbolism of certain items…

  • that time we spent an afternoon in a nuclear bunker

    with one and a half days in tirana, we had just enough time to do a little sightseeing.  there were a number of museums in the core of the city where we were staying but one particular museum stood out…

  • Coolest Museum in Humlebaek

    For some reason there is a museum of modern art in Denmark named Louisiana. According to Wikipedia, the name of the museum derives from the first owner of the property who named the villa after his three wives, all named…