Book Boxes of Brussels – Les boites à livres
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.
Month: August 2016
Paddy’s journey: Gifts, woods and broken roads
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.
People watching in the Louisiana cafeteria
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.
Pop art illuminations in Louisiana
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.
Alas, poor Yorick – his response to life is worth emulating
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!