Books I love as I travel
We have several photographs from Ethiopia in our living room. There are four enlargements of pictures my wife Céline took during our trip in 1995. Superb views of the Simien Continue Reading →
For almost six months, I lived in Göttingen on the Paulinerstraße. It was the length of a university semester as an Erasmus exchange student. That’s where I learned German, even Continue Reading →
When the increase in COVID-19 cases forced us to cancel our return to Europe this winter, we started to look for options for the break between Christmas and New Year. Continue Reading →
We have a game in our family when one of us is traveling. We send a picture of the place we are in to our Whatsapp group and ask, “Where Continue Reading →
There are different ways to combine travelling and reading. One, which I often practice, is to bring on your trip a book about your destination. Another one, less premeditated, is Continue Reading →
I had started « The Fortunes of Wangrin » (L’étrange destin de Wangrin) » by Malian author Amadou Hampaté Bâ in the flight bringing me to Bamako. Every night I continued reading a Continue Reading →
Each time I travel through Istanbul, even for a short stopover, I take the opportunity to explore this fascinating city. Often also, it is a chance to discover the work Continue Reading →
I believe there are two ways, more complementary than contradictory, to be seduced or moved by a painting. Either it is the composition, the perfection of the drawing or the Continue Reading →
When our family moved many years ago from Chicago to the Washington, DC area, I drove all the way with our old car going through Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Continue Reading →
The first time I heard of Thomas Sankara, I was living in Djibouti in the middle of the 90s. The minibuses in the city are almost all white with a Continue Reading →