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The Beginning of Brickbeys: Visiting Billund
By: Vivian Looij

After 40 years the time had finally come... I went to Legoland! From the hotel I walked to the entrance... as excited as a child. I had no eyes enough and was finally able to photograph the huge welcome gate "Legoland Billund". There we were, my husband Hans and I, next to each other, wearing thick coats. Me with my phone and him, a professional photographer, with a huge camera.

My husband and I have been together for about fourteen years now (2023). He is originally a bicycle repairman, mechanic, coach driver, tour leader and photographer during quiet moments. I am an art historian with, remarkably enough, a passion for logic and numbers. And Lego®. Hans and I met each other in Amsterdam centre where our work brought us together. At the time I was working for an incoming tour operator, he had just spread his wings and taken over a coach company. It was a matter of months before I made the switch to his coach company: my long-term ambition did not match the opportunities within the company where I worked. Since then, Hans and I have been inseparable, both professionally and privately.
At the moment we have a coach company with five coaches, we organize day trips and multi-day trips on individual registration from Amsterdam, we have a maintenance company specialized in coaches, buses and trucks and I also have a small administrative office. Thanks to our great team, we are able to operate and continue to operate everything.

Throughout my life, Lego® has been a recurring theme. No matter what I did, no matter how busy I was, in the end there was always Lego®. At the end of 2022 I decided that I really wanted to do more with Lego® and I came up with the name Brickbeys. Hans was immediately very enthusiastic. We started making plans and decided there was only one place to officially start Brickbeys: Legoland.