Books I love as I travel
Akiko asked for some suggestions to prepare a trip to Venice. The book I read during my last visit to Venice was « Death in Venice (Der Tod in Venedig) » by Continue Reading →
Tea time. Served in china on the veranda of the Viharagala bungalow. In the middle of tea plantations, leaning on Haputale’s mountain, this is the former residence of the English Continue Reading →
Patricia asked for some reading suggestions about Tanzania. Ernest Hemingway has two famous short stories and one autobiographical story which take place in Tanzania, at the time of the great Continue Reading →
My in-laws just came back from a trip to Naples and the surrounding region. Here are some suggestions I put together for them. Several chapters of the book “Bourlinguer” (translated Continue Reading →
Coming from Belgium, Paris is not exactly a foreign city. Of course, the one hour and 20 minutes trip in the Thalys high speed train looks not much longer than Continue Reading →
“You don’t easily give up a creature like Ravelstein to death.” That’s the final line of Saul Bellow’s eponymous novel. I was a student at the University of Chicago in Continue Reading →
Muriel asked for some suggestions for her next trip to Cambodia and Laos. Unfortunately, I have never been in Laos, so I cannot help her for this country. If you Continue Reading →
My parents recently made a short trip to Lisbon and asked me for book suggestions. I first suggested “Night Train to Lisbon” by the Swiss author, Pascal Mercier. I just Continue Reading →
We are in early October and the weather is still warm. Warm enough to get down the stairs of the Mont Saint-Martin without a coat and discover Liège coiled in Continue Reading →
It was by chance that I stumbled on the Museum of Innocence. Not the book. The Museum. After visiting Dolmabahce Palace, I walked along the Bosphorus and decided, without Continue Reading →