Books I love as I travel
Antwerp is the city where my father was born, where my paternal grandparents met and got married before moving to Brussels after World War II. My father, born in 1941, Continue Reading →
From the first pages of Yangsze Choo’s novel « The Ghost Bride » I recognized the atmosphere I experienced a few years ago walking through downtown Malacca in Malaysia. The old 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 →
A honeymoon in Kyrgyzstan? Most of our friends widened their eyes when we made this announcement. But my wife and I like trekking in the mountains, so after having visited Continue Reading →
When I tell my acquaintances that I am getting ready to travel to Sierra Leone, they invariably ask me if it is not too dangerous. The country’s name is associated 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 →
We arrived in Berlin on Saturday November 11, 1989. The Wall fell on the night of Thursday the 9th. You will kindly notice that I more accurate in my memories Continue Reading →
I often travel to Oxford for an academic conference and I take this opportunity to visit some of the colleges. Saint Catherine’s, where the conference is organized and where I Continue Reading →
I visited Prague for the first time in the summer of 1989, a few months before the opening of the Iron Curtain. I remember one evening when we were walking 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 →