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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
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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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