Tag Archives: Tourism

Unexpected bluebells

Posted on May 3, 2017 by lembrechtsjonas

This time of year, thousands of people are awed by the Purple Forest, the beautiful Hallerbos close to Brussels, with its endless tapestries of bluebells. Tourists come from all over the world, making the romantic scenery suffer more, year after … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Flower photography, Flowers, Hallerbos, Hiking, Nature, Nature photography, Outdoors, Plant photography, Plants, Tourism, Travel | Leave a comment

Beech and bluebell

Posted on April 21, 2016 by lembrechtsjonas

This week brought the field course to the ‘Hallerbos’, Brussels world-famous forest with the purple bluebell carpet. Of course it is mostly this endless see of purple that attracts the thousands and thousands of tourists every year (oh, dear lord, … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Beech, Belgium, Bluebells, Flowers, Forest, Hallerbos, Nature photography, Photography, Spring, Tourism, Travel photography | 8 Comments

Remember them

Posted on October 27, 2015 by lembrechtsjonas

I still owed you a gallery of my latest visit to Abisko. You can enjoy the rainbows, clouds and splashes of sun here (or find it on the right of my blog). Summer is gone and all flowers are fading. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Ecology, Field ecology, Flowers, Hiking, Nature, Nature photography, Outdoors, Plant, Plant photography, Plants, Remembering, Scandinavia, Sweden, Tourism, Travel, Traveling | 2 Comments

Tourist in my own city

Posted on October 19, 2015 by lembrechtsjonas

On a beautiful Friday in October, I had the chance to spend my afternoon at the city campus of our own University of Antwerp to attend a PhD defence from a colleague. The sun was shining bright and I was eager to … Continue reading →

Posted in Belgium | Tagged Antwerp, Architecture, Art, Belgium, Building photography, City, City trip, Historic, History, Photography, Tourism, Travel, Travelling, UAntwerpen, University | 4 Comments

The cotton castle

Posted on September 24, 2015 by lembrechtsjonas

Please, allow my inner mountain enthousiast to be lyrical about some rocks! Pamukkale is the Turkish word for cotton castle, so I learned from Wikipedia, and it is a world famous hot spring area, with white calcium carbonate (‘travertine’) terraces overlooking a … Continue reading →