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 →
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 →
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 →
We have a game in our family when one of us is traveling. We send a picture of the place we are in to our Whatsapp group and ask, “Where 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →