now on bbc news the travel show. hello and welcome to the travel show from bruges in belgium. coming up on this week s programme the families fighting to keep tradition afloat. if you open it up like amsterdam or venice, that would kill the charm. ..the woman proving there s no one size fits all traveller. i wanted to talk to you about being a plus sized person who loves to travel. ..and taking swimming to the extreme in west africa. obviously, i feel tired. ifeel tired all the time and my muscles are aching. but i also do experience a lot ofjoy. one, two, three. for centuries, cities have competed and feuded with each other, though nowadays it s more often to the benefit of visitors, as rivals bid to offer more compelling attractions. some famous rivalries between cities around the world include spain s barcelona and madrid. over in india, delhi and mumbai. and in the states, new york versus la. while in australia, it s got to be sydney and melbourne. and here in bruges,
those are the headlines here on bbc news. now on bbc news, the travel show. hello and welcome to the travel show from bruges in belgium. coming up on this week s programme the families fighting to keep tradition afloat. if you open it up like amsterdam or venice, that would kill the charm. ..the woman proving there s no one size fits all traveller. i wanted to talk to you about being a plus sized person who loves to travel. ..and taking swimming to the extreme in west africa. obviously, i feel tired. ifeel tired all the time and my muscles are aching. but i also do experience a lot ofjoy. one, two, three. for centuries, cities have competed and feuded with each other, though nowadays it s more often to the benefit of visitors, as rivals bid to offer more compelling attractions. some famous rivalries between cities around the world include spain s barcelona and madrid. over in india, delhi and mumbai. and in the states, new york versus la. while in australia, it s got to be
hello and welcome to the travel show with me, rajan datar. now, it s widely believed that the first ever museum was built more than 2,500 years ago in babylon, or modern day iraq. and now unesco reckons there are 100,000 of them throughout the world. but today, many museums are putting a lot of time and effort into thinking about how they can make their collections more engaging and more in tune with modern audiences. and that is what we re looking at in this week s show, starting here in belgium. the african museum in tervuren, just outside of brussels, is marking its 125th anniversary. and along with a range of events associated with that, the museum s taken the opportunity to reflect on its colonial past. five years ago, the museum underwent a massive renovation, removing problematic statues, changing the labelling around objects, anything that created a negative stereotype about africa. though some things couldn t be changed, like the enduring presence of the monarch who