Books I love as I travel
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 →
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 →
For many, Boston evokes prestigious universities such as Harvard, M.I.T. or Boston University. Even if the first two are actually located on the other side of the Charles River, in 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 →
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 →