Books I love as I travel
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 →
I had started « The Fortunes of Wangrin » (L’étrange destin de Wangrin) » by Malian author Amadou Hampaté Bâ in the flight bringing me to Bamako. Every night I continued reading a Continue Reading →
Each time I travel through Istanbul, even for a short stopover, I take the opportunity to explore this fascinating city. Often also, it is a chance to discover the work Continue Reading →
I believe there are two ways, more complementary than contradictory, to be seduced or moved by a painting. Either it is the composition, the perfection of the drawing or the Continue Reading →
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 →
The first time I heard of Thomas Sankara, I was living in Djibouti in the middle of the 90s. The minibuses in the city are almost all white with a Continue Reading →
« 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 →