Books I love as I travel
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 →
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 →
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 →
During the first hours of my short visit to El Salvador I enjoyed splendid lights. It started with our landing while the sunrise was splashing on the lakes and volcanoes. Continue Reading →
During my first and recent visit to Ecuador, I did in a few days the return trip between Guayaquil, the large port metropolis on the Pacific Coast and Cuenca, a Continue Reading →
The first time I heard about Jorge Luis Borges, it was many years ago while reading “The Name of the Rose” by Umberto Eco. The Argentinian writer was the inspiration Continue Reading →
Since a few years, I have been making a few quick trips to Haiti. My visits are limited to Port-au-Prince, the capital city, but the cultural shock offered by this Continue Reading →
I have a special attraction for seaplanes. Is this a remembrance from my readings of the Tintin comics? Or because I have only seen a few (I remember one landing Continue Reading →
The plane had already started its descent towards Washington when the South African Airways pilot announced that because of the snow our flight would be diverted to JFK airport in Continue Reading →
I am coming back from a wonderful trip in Colombia with family and friends. The giant of Colombian literature, the father of magical realism is of course Gabriel Garcia Márquez. Continue Reading →