The Feel Good Way

Tag: Why on earth

  • What was that!?

    Did it ever happen to you, when you were at a concert, that at the end, when the singer says thank you and goodbye, the audience does not start yelling, clapping and begging for a 2nd round of songs, but instead, ‘en masse”, turn their heads towards the exits and leave? It happened to me…

  • Caravaggio, a classic.

    Another classic is visiting us in Buenos Aires. This time it is Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610). He was an Italian barok painter, trained in Milan under Simone Peterzano. He moved to Rome where he was considered the most famous painter of his time. He was very successful during his life, but was quite a…

  • Sinterklaas, (no not Santa Claus…)

    Sinterklaas, the Holy Man, is on his way. He is terribly old and old-fashioned. He lives in Spain and every year around the beginning of december he travels up north by steamboat -no he has not yet heard about globalization, he only travels to Belgium, Holland and a part of Germany- to give the kids…

  • The crying tree

    If you thought that with the Ceibos, the Jacarandas and the Ceiba Speciosa, you know all about Buenos Aires botany I must disappoint you. Here is another tree, one of the most common and most striking trees in Capital. Today, apart from the little bit of purple left on the Jacarandas, the streets are yellow… The…

  • Alberto Giacometti

    The name sounds like music. He was a Suisse sculptor, probably most known for his bronze, long and skinny, men and woman. A lot of his work is property of the Alberto and Anette Giacometti foundation, which lends out several works to different museums, either long or short term. Now a big part of the…

  • Vive le Roi! (Leve de Koning!)

    November 15 is the day of the dynasty, the day we Belgians celebrate our monarch. Our royal dynasty is quite recent, Albert II is only our 6th king. Belgium was founded in 1830. Although he has no real powers to run the country, the king does have an important symbolic role : he keeps the…

  • spring blue

  • Change of Season

    Walking through the streets of Buenos Aires, glancing sideways through windows, I wonder if the clothes in the stores are summer or winter collection, and if we are soon to have sales or if the season has just started. After 3 years I am still totally confused about the seasons. And of course, the fact…

  • The Daily Bread

    Belgium has finally arrived in Buenos Aires. I am thrilled. I am all excited. I can now eat Belgian food in ‘Le Pain Quotidien’ in Capital. I couldn’t believe it until I saw it with my own eyes – and of course, until I had tested it. It was officially opened last week, this restaurant…

  • the unexpected

    Is it just Argentina, or is it a general Latino kind of thing, the love for the unexpected? Well maybe they don’t love it, but it is definitely a part of their daily life. And how different it is to the life I was used to, when all was well organised and agendas were full…