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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.

Bon appétit!

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Cook and Book – books and breakfast in Brussels

25 August, 201931 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

22 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

12 October, 201829 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

17 July, 20191 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

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

Mardi Gras – the Laeken children’s carnival

1 March, 2017

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.

Categories Gallery, Images, Stops and Stories
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Far Flung: An anthology of stories, articles and poems - published in November 2020 - includes two of my short stories and a poem.

You may also like to read my blog post about Far Flung and about my writers group.

Published poet (again)

The Poet magazine published another four of my poems in its Summer: On the Road edition. You can buy a copy (Kindle or print) by following this link.

Red Planet magazine
Red Planet magazine published my short science fiction story "Patchwork" in its March 2020 edition. You can download a copy as a PDF ($3) by following this link.

The Poet magazine published my poem "September the Diva" as the first poem in its Winter: The Seasons edition. You can download a free copy as a PDF by following this link. Or buy a print copy from Amazon - a link from the same page.

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Most popular posts from 2020

Princess Uncumber
Princess Uncumber – a retold tale
Flying to Accra
Flying to Accra – in 1964 and 2018
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Far flung writing: telling stories from a distance
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Why I Really Don’t like Kindle
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Enjoy heritage rail in these delightful pictures!

Most popular posts from earlier years

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In the Dieweg Cemetery
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The Gothenburg disco fire – 20 years on
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Book Boxes of Brussels – Les boites à livres
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The worst journey in the world (redux)
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Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands – a review

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