A brief return to Belgium – a photo gallery
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.
Stops and Stories
A travel blog about Stops and Stories. Read TheSupercargo’s Travel Blog for more detail or scroll down.
In the Dieweg Cemetery
A photo essay from the disused but not quite yet abandoned Die Weg cemetery in Uccle just south-west of Wolvendael park in Uccle.
Portrait wall at Overleie in Kortrijk
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.
Three incidents in Brussels – people watching
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.
The students’ day, and the workers’
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.
The Red Stone Gallery and the Art Round in Majorna
The Art Round in Majorna (Konstrunden i Majorna) 2017 is the 20th in series. There’s something I find very attractive about visiting artists’ studios. Fuel for my pipe dreams. At the same time it’s inspiring to meet artists surrounded by their work and talk with them about their art.
Landvetter wolves and other social photos
A short article about the Landvetter wolves and other photos I originally published on social media and now share here in a gallery for the first time.
When did they begin, the Beguine?
There are traces of the Beguine all over Belgium it seems, but how did a medieval women’s religious movement inspire Cole Porter’s 1930s song?
Mardi Gras – the Laeken children’s carnival
In which I finally achieve my dream of photographing a Mardi Gras carnival on Mardi Gras. Though it doesn’t turn out to be quite what I expected. A gallery of photos from the Children’s Mardi Gras Carnival Parade in the greater Brussels municipality of Laeken.
Seeking refuge in Mechelen
We were going to visit Mechelen anyway, but when the boiler died and there was no heat to be had at home all weekend, we sought refuge there in a hotel. A long photo walk in the mist/rain/snow in this quaint little city.