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Brussels

From January 2015 to December 2017 – three years – Mrs SC worked in Brussels and I lived there most of the time. I wrote a lot of my Stops and Stories posts in and about Brussels. Here below I collect all the posts tagged Brussels on this site.

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Seven years ago in Brussels, photos from 2015

2 February, 2022

Seven years ago Mrs SC and I moved to Brussels. I’ve just turned up these photos I took the first few weeks there, never before shared!

Categories Images, Stops and Stories
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More of a post holder than a blog post

2 June, 2021

This isn’t the blog post I’ve been trying to write. Instead it’s a nice, short post explaining why I’m having problems.

Categories Stops and Stories
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Cook and Book – books and breakfast in Brussels

9 October, 202131 October, 2018

Cook and Book in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert: it’s a bookshop and a restaurant, a café and jazz venue. And did I mention it’s a bookshop?

Categories Gallery, Images, Photo essay, Stops and Stories
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A photo catch-up in October Brussels

9 October, 202122 October, 2018

Back in Brussels for a photo catch-up and an attempt to round off my Brussels years, I don’t quite manage, but I do get a lot of pretty decent photos.

Categories Images, Stops and Stories

Utility box art in Gothenburg and Brussels

10 December, 202129 August, 2018

Utility box art questions: Is there a popular name for an electricity enclosure? Why do people paint them in Brussels but not Gothenburg. What are they called in French?

Categories 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
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A brief return to Belgium – a photo gallery

25 August, 201923 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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Bruxelles adieux! Brussels farewell!

17 July, 201924 January, 2018

Adieux Bruxelles – Farewell Brussels. A Supercargo Scrimshaw video documenting the last few days we spent in Brussels in December 2017,

Categories Video and Speech
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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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Childhood, the latest edition of The Poet magazine, includes two of my poems
Far Flung: An anthology of stories, articles and poems - published in November 2020 - includes two of my short stories and a poem.

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Most popular posts published in 2021

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Pilgrim, Riddly and setting free the turtles
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Most popular posts from earlier years

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Brussels parakeets make the world a better place – or don’t
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The Gothenburg disco fire – 20 years on
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When did they begin, the Beguine?
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Princess Uncumber – a retold tale
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Why I really don’t like Kindle
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Book boxes of Brussels – Les boites à livres
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