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Continue reading →: Church of tango
One of my fellow-bloggers in Argentina, Cherie Magnus, also known as Tangocherie, has written down her memoirs. The books starts at the point in her life when everything changes. She becomes a widow at too young an age -early 40- and she finds herself alone, with 2 grown up sons.…
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Continue reading →: Silent protest…
This is not my first Cacerolazo, my first one was on somewhere in 2008, when K. took a few decisions to bring the agriculture (el campo), down. Protests were long, day after day, for weeks. Every evening at 8 pm people would open their windows, or just stand in front…
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Continue reading →: The White Elephant
El Elefante Blanco is the latest, very powerful (Argentine/French/Spanish) movie by Pablo Trapero, with Ricardo Darin, Jeremie Renier and Martina Glusman. It is the story of father Julian and (the Belgian) father Nicolas, who (among others) are trying to help the people that live in the villas (slums). From minute…
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Continue reading →: 1001 churches…
If you are religious, and for some reason you want to enter a different church every -let’s say- 30 minutes, assuming you have a car, the Flanders would be the place to be. Where ever you are in the Northern part of Belgium, if you leave a town or a…
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Continue reading →: Natural Colors
Although winter is definitely knocking at our doors right now, we are still in autumn, and in some places you can still see these lovely natural colors. This one is taken in Nordelta, a barrio in the north, with lots of water, lots of boats, but during the week (and…
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Continue reading →: What’s another year…
Why is a birthday so different when you live abroad? Back home you seem to be just like everybody else whose birthday is celebrated every year; they can hear or see you every day anyway, if they want. But when you are far away and missed, -even though they can…
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Continue reading →: Lyon in BA
The ‘Aire de Lyon’ exposition in P.R.O.A. as a retake of the 11th bienale of Lyon, although somewhat smaller (only 35 of the 78 artists show their work here). Some works are identical, other works are new. This makes it a totally different exhibition. There are sculptures, paintings, drawings, installations,…
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Continue reading →: What is Eurovision?
Checking my Twitter account yesterday I realised I had missed it, the Eurovision Song contest. I received numerous tweets from different papers and tv stations, the most interesting was probably the one on CNNI : “What is Eurovision?”. This struck me as a surprise, as it seems unreal to me…
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Continue reading →: Cleaning Windows
Cleaning Windows (Van Morrison) Oh, the smell of the bakery from across the street Got in my nose As we carried our ladders down the street With the wrought-iron rows I went home and listened to Jimmy Rodgers in my lunch-break Bought five Woodbines at the shop on the corner…






