Books I love as I travel
« Somehow, I was sure that if people were willing to read each other, and see the light of other cultures, there would be no war on earth». This sentence summarizes Continue Reading →
It is now a little bit less than one year that Notre-Dame was burning. A French colleague alerted me in the halls of our office, and I went straight to Continue Reading →
Former French President Sarkozy caused an uproar a little bit more than 10 years ago when he thought clever to say in a speech that « The tragedy of Africa is Continue Reading →
A large house for a large family. Ancient walls whose stones protect from the summer heat. A large terrace for dining in the evening and from which in the morning Continue Reading →
Antwerp is the city where my father was born, where my paternal grandparents met and got married before moving to Brussels after World War II. My father, born in 1941, Continue Reading →
From the first pages of Yangsze Choo’s novel « The Ghost Bride » I recognized the atmosphere I experienced a few years ago walking through downtown Malacca in Malaysia. The old Continue Reading →
A few months ago, I got the opportunity to visit for the first time New Orleans and its surroundings in Louisiana. It is a city filled with history, full of Continue Reading →
A honeymoon in Kyrgyzstan? Most of our friends widened their eyes when we made this announcement. But my wife and I like trekking in the mountains, so after having visited Continue Reading →
When I tell my acquaintances that I am getting ready to travel to Sierra Leone, they invariably ask me if it is not too dangerous. The country’s name is associated Continue Reading →
Up or down. Stairs steps can separate two worlds. It’s the case at Cape Coast Castle, one of the forts build to protect the slave trade in Ghana. In that Continue Reading →