Books I love as I travel
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 →
China remains a difficult world to understand and decode. The language barrier makes even the most fascinating journeys seem to touch only the surface. This same barrier also limits the Continue Reading →
So far, I have only made three trips, fairly short, to Australia, once in Sydney and twice in Melbourne. Each visit gives me the urge to learn more about the Continue Reading →
Last summer, Céline and I traveled for one week in Andalusia. I was looking for a few good books. I could have read « Tales of the Alhambra » written by the Continue Reading →
The previous book I read about Georgia left me hungry for more. I had written that « Avelum », Otar Chiladze’s novel, was brilliant, but that I did “put it down a Continue Reading →
I had just landed for the first time in Cameroon at Douala airport, a Friday evening. Before working the following week in Yaoundé, I had organized to go during the Continue Reading →