Books I love as I travel
One of my first trips to Ghent had a very precise objective: I had asked my mother to take me to the St Bavo’s Cathedral to discover the Ghent Altarpiece Continue Reading →
Are « local » writers better placed to describe their country, their region or their city? This is a question that has bothered me a few times in writing this blog in Continue Reading →
A whole and very simple life. And almost entirely lived in a valley in the Austrian Alps. That’s Andreas Egger’s story told by Robert Seethaler, Austrian writer and actor in Continue Reading →
Philippe asked for some reading advice for a trip to Bavaria. This gave me the opportunity to remember several holidays around the Thumsee, near Bad Reichenhall. German novelist Andrea Continue Reading →
Until recently, Barcelona was for me a « must see » city. I had never been there but everybody was telling me how wonderful it is: the perfect destination for a mini-trip Continue Reading →
Last summer I wrote a post about Naples in the blog’s « Books, Movies and Beyond» section. When reading it again, I have to recognize it is a little empty: many Continue Reading →
Recently Brussels was cowardly attacked by terrorists. This is the city where I was born and grew up. I propose a brief and personal tribute to this very attractive city that Continue Reading →
Muriel is planning a trip to Saint-Petersburg and she is asking for some reading suggestions. Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” is one of Russian and world’s literature’s masterpieces. It is Continue Reading →
English is frequently spoken in Périgord: aboard the kayaks gliding down the Dordogne, in the castles pointing their keeps and towers above the tree line or on the terraces at Continue Reading →
I recently went twice to Armenia and I got interested by this fascinating country’s history. In addition, last year was the centenary of the genocide perpetrated against the Armenian people in Continue Reading →