Books I love as I travel
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 →
One of the highlights of our trip France this summer was our short stop at the Saint-Fargeau Castle, in the Yonne department. It is located a little bit away from 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 →
We had just landed at Savannah airport in Georgia and the taxi driver who was bringing us to the Bed & Breakfast we had booked for the week-end welcomed us Continue Reading →