A couple of days in Maastricht
Maastricht in the Netherlands – celebrating Mrs SC’s birthday, we spent a couple of days in this charming, picturesque little Dutch city. The old town is built for walkers and walk we did. And take photos.
Maastricht in the Netherlands – celebrating Mrs SC’s birthday, we spent a couple of days in this charming, picturesque little Dutch city. The old town is built for walkers and walk we did. And take photos.
This week, wounds and scar tissue. Not one of my usual efforts, though it is a kind of a Stop and a kind of a Story. I want to give some explanation of why I’ve not been enthusiastically blogging the last few weeks. It all starts with my birth…
New York Stories, the people who tell them.and the photographer who reports. A review of a photo-book that recently seduced me in a bookshop.
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The Saint Job Fair in Uccle: giants, a brass band, death and the baker, a boy in a bubble, a jousting knight and a sleeping cat – among others things.
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United Music of Brussels was a day of music to launch a new season of classical music, and I heard it announced over the public transort address system.
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Erasmus House in Anderlecht: a guided tour of the house gives an introduction to Erasmus of Rotterdam – Renaissance scholar, Christian humanist, key figure in the pre-Reformation – and kicks up some questionable facts.
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The Comic Strip Festival in Brussels has become an annual event that attracts comic fans from across at least the Francophone world.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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