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The Sea Is a Lover: The Healing and Imaginative Power of the North Sea
10 December 2025
Inhale the fresh air on the beach, the scent of iodine, the taste of salt on the skin. The North Sea is a source of salty self-care for many people – especially women – which is nothing new. Two centuries ago, North Sea cures were mainly women's cures, for what was called female ‘hysteria’.
The Bottom of the North Sea Reveals Its Secrets
1 December 2025
The North Sea is not an open book: its past lies buried under the sand of the seabed, inaccessible to most. In recent years, however, knowledge about this terra incognita has gained momentum. Dive below the water’s surface to Doggerland, Testerep, and Paardenmarkt.
Waves of Wellness: How the North Sea Shapes Our Health
10 September 2025
The sea is calming, and bathing in salt water is good for your health – or so they say. But is there also an element of truth in these clichés? Could the North Sea really be a vast medicine cabinet with a cure for every ailment?
Everyone Stakes a Claim to the North Sea
12 August 2025
The North Sea is not only a source of recreation, but also of economic activity. Every day, fishing boats, cargo ships, wind farms, marine farms and tourists engage in a complex water ballet on these 575,000 square kilometres. So, who manages all this activity? And do we take sufficient account of t
Migration Across the North Sea Was Once Seen as a Solution — Why Is It No Longer Considered One Now?
10 June 2024
The United Kingdom's tough migration policy makes the North Sea a particularly dangerous crossing route, but until the nineteenth century, the country was known as a liberal haven for people who could not find a home anywhere else. That policy changed quickly, at least partially, after a diplomatic
Belle Epoque Centre Takes You Back to the Golden Age of Blankenberge
3 July 2019
The associations you spontaneously make with the popular seaside town Blankenberge are probably not directly linked to art or a rich past. The queen of seaside towns it is not, but there was a time when it could certainly rival Ostend. The Belle Epoque Centre shows how, in its heyday, from 1870 till


