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Stops and Stories

A travel blog about Stops and Stories. Read TheSupercargo’s Travel Blog for more detail or scroll down.

Gothenburg Culture Festival 2018 – a photo essay

6 December, 202120 August, 2018

Gothenburg’s 2018 Culture Festival – Kulturkalaset – was an opportunity for me to try out my new camera and lenses and see inside some historic buildings.

Categories Images, Photo essay, Stops and Stories

A Beginner’s Guide to the Bruegel Fountains of Brussels

24 October, 20211 August, 2018

The Bruegel Fountains of Brussels, a photo essay. Manneken Pis apart, Brussels is blessed with dozens of public fountains, among them the Bruegel fountains.

Categories Photo essay, Popular, Stops and Stories
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Brussels parakeets make the world a better place – or don’t

22 August, 201818 July, 2018

Depending on your point of view these Brussels parakeets make the world a better place, or they’re a green menace. Either way they’re not easy to photograph.

Categories Stops and Stories

Gothenburg by Paddan – playing at being a tourist

10 July, 20184 July, 2018

The Paddan boats are a popular tourist attraction in Gothenburg. Sometimes it’s fun to play at being a tourist in your home town.

Categories Images, Photo essay, Stops and Stories

Skagen – why we went and what we saw

6 September, 202327 June, 2018

To Skagen in Denmark – a long weekend away with Mrs SC in the Danish town of artists, tourists, fisherfolk, history and weather.

Categories Gallery, Images, Photo essay, Stops and Stories
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A brief return to Belgium – a photo gallery

18 September, 202223 May, 2018

A bief return to Brussels for a boring bureaucratic task yields photo-memories of places we planned to visit but never managed during our three years in Belgium.

Categories Gallery, Photo essay, Stops and Stories
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In the Dieweg Cemetery

25 August, 201924 May, 2017

A photo essay from the disused but not quite yet abandoned Die Weg cemetery in Uccle just south-west of Wolvendael park in Uccle.

Categories Gallery, Images, Photo essay, Popular, Stops and Stories
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Portrait wall at Overleie in Kortrijk

22 August, 201817 May, 2017

A tourist visit to Kortrijk (Courtai in French) leads us through the town on the Golden Spurs trail and out to Little Buda and a wall of portraits that turns out to be an artistic protest.

Categories Photo essay, Stops and Stories

Three incidents in Brussels – people watching

22 August, 201810 May, 2017

Three incidents from last Sunday that reinforced my appreciation of the truth that problems can be overcome with a little goodwill – and there is always goodwill.

Categories Stops and Stories
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The students’ day, and the workers’

14 February, 20193 May, 2017

The students’ day, and the workers’ – Valborg on the 30th April and Labour Day on the 1st May – two events that together usher in the spring in Sweden.

Categories Stops and Stories
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Most popular posts published in 2023

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It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover – a review (March)
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Character building with Lajos Egri (May)
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Juxtaposition and Creativity (May)

Most popular posts from earlier years

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Jamestown, Accra: walking through history with Collins and Lee (2020)
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The Gothenburg disco fire – 20 years on (2018)
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Antiques and memories (2015)
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Vai: across the South Pacific – a review (2020)
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The short summer night – a translation (2020)
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