Books I love as I travel
I just missed Gaël Faye’s visit to “La Page d’Après”, the bookshop my sister-in-law Floriane opened in Louvain-la-Neuve just over a year ago. Interest was so great that they had Continue Reading →
When I arrived at the summit of Mount Sinai last May, I felt as if I were honoring an appointment missed over thirty years ago. In 1992, we had planned 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 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 →
Somalia. For most, this country’s name conjures images of hunger, civil war, militiamen perched behind a machine gun on the back of a pick-up, terrorist attacks and piracy. When 25 Continue Reading →
I have been several times to Kenya, but I can’t say I know the country well. I was often passing by Nairobi and its surroundings, but only for a few Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →