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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…
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Continue reading →: A Belgian will always be, a Belgian…
The other day I was walking home from school with a classmate, who is half Belgian. That is quite something (having a half Belgian classmate, I mean), as –apart from me and maybe 1 or 2 Brazilians- there is no one in the school who is not native Spanish speaking…
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Continue reading →: Man in Storm
As long as I remember, this man has spend his sundays standing in the imaginary wind in San Telmo. He has lost a bit of hair, a few buttons on his jacket, but he is still as good as he used to be!
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Continue reading →: Los Maguires
There is this one mansion that really stands out in Avenida Alvear, not because it’s beauty -although it is absolutely magnificent- but because of its deterioration and it’s huge trees that have grown completely out of proportion. It is known as ex-Palacio Duhau (not to be mistaken by the Palacio…






