Books I love as I travel
This blog started from the idea of describing, by mixing them, my travel and reading experiences since I take a lot of pleasure in reading books, mostly novels, that take Continue Reading →
My daughter had joined me in Helsinki in the afternoon and we had taken the ferry to spend the evening on the archipelago that houses the Suomenlinna fortress. It was Continue Reading →
I remember well the first time I heard Mario Vargas Llosa speak. It was the literary program “Apostrophes” hosted by Bernard Pivot and I was probably watching it with my Continue Reading →
With this article, I conclude a journey that began in Zambia with Namwali Serpell and continued through Tanzania to Zanzibar, in the footsteps of Dr. Livingstone’s mortal remains, with Petina Continue Reading →
My previous article covered Zambia, including the town of Livingstone not far from Victoria Falls. Today, I invite you to take a trip that will take us from Zambia to Continue Reading →
My first visit to Zambia was to Victoria Falls. A steel bridge over the gorge allows admiring the splendid cataract of the Zambezi, called in local language “Mosi-oa-Tunya”, the smoke Continue Reading →
I had seen the Este Castle and the Duomo. I had walked along Via Mazzini and Via Vignatagliata in the old Jewish quarter of Ferrara. I had just stopped in Continue Reading →
My brother-in-law Emmanuel has been for several years the president of the “Grandes Conférences Catholiques“, probably the most prestigious forum in the capital of Europe. As I live in the Continue Reading →
I take my daily walk, most often with an audio book playing in my headphones, in the park next to our house. My usual route takes me past vegetable gardens, Continue Reading →
This Sunday is Mother’s Day. This year it falls on the same day in Belgium and in the US, which makes it easier for me, since my parents live in Continue Reading →