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Month: August 2016

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Book Boxes of Brussels – Les boites à livres

16 August, 202031 August, 2016

The book boxes – les boites à livres – are scattered across the city – they’re not always easy to find, but that makes looking for them a sport.

Categories Stops and Stories
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Paddy’s journey: Gifts, woods and broken roads

17 September, 201924 August, 2016

Gifts, woods and broken roads – a review of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s trilogy of books about walking across Europe in 1933, and the allure of his story.

Categories Book Review, Reviews, Stops and Stories
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People watching in the Louisiana cafeteria

23 February, 201917 August, 2016

Standing in line at the Louisiana cafeteria two children provide a distraction for the waiting queue – and almost make me hold the queue up in my turn.

Categories Stops and Stories
Louisiana featured

Pop art illuminations in Louisiana

18 September, 201914 August, 2016

Pop art illuminations in the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, – the 85th most visited art museum in the world (says Wikipedia at the time I write this). Poul Gernes, Yayoi Kusama and others.

Categories Exhibition, Reviews, Stops and Stories
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Alas, poor Yorick – his response to life is worth emulating

25 February, 20193 August, 2016

Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio. A fellow of infinite jest whose response to life I fain would emulate… I am on holiday in Denmark. In the tourist information centre at Helsingør, aparently!

Categories Stops and Stories

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