Brussels will always be a special place for me. As I wrote down once on a sign for a protest for better air quality: I have lost my heart in Brussels but my lungs are screaming to me to leave here. I have met … Continue readingGhost bikes
Vlak voor mijn zomerse fietstocht langs De Maas, ging ik naar de Europese Jongleer Conventie in Newwark-on-Trent in Engeland. Last minute beslissing maar een goede. Veel input, geweldige shows, veel nieuwe hoedentrucs en interessante ontmoetingen. Hier zijn een paar foto’s van de openingsparade, waar de … Continue readingEuropese Jongleer Conventie 2019
Between walls and worlds – Entre-Murs Entre-Mondes Our bicycle trip along the “Maas/Meuse” lead us through Liège and in front of this freshly squatted building. The group – between 20 and 30 both in numbers as in age – baptised this free space “Entre-Murs Entre-Mondes” … Continue readingA new squat in Liege: threatened with eviction
Scandinavia is attractive to me. A month and a half after I got back from my first 10 months I headed off north again, this time with my backpack and by hitchhiking. Most of my travels are solo but that doesn’t mean traveling alone. First … Continue readingHitchhiking to the midnight sun
Update: Some portraits from the Zomaar volunteers fest in the autumn 2019 See also Album : Vzw Cultiversum for more pictures of activities of Vzw Cultiversum ( like zomerfeest )
My trip through Scandinavia and some parts of the Baltic countries has been great mainly because of the nature but I also had a good time in some (big) cities. Oslo, Norway I wasn’t so much attracted to the city centre, maybe because I was … Continue readingCity life in Scandinavia and the Baltics
Although the Norweigan landscapes don’t require many words, the images speak for themselves, I still want to share a couple of things. Norway wasn’t really in my plan (as far as I had a plan), but Nordkap came quickly on the radar since it s … Continue readingNorway
What started off as a bicycle trip in summer quickly turned into autumn as the seasons have a different rhythm in the north. When I learned more about the culture of the indigenous people of Lapland – the Sami – I was intrigued by how … Continue readingSummer and winter in Lapland
Two weeks back in Belgium so I could take some time to go through photos, organise and edit them. Here is a couple of series with some written thoughts. A weekend out</strong> with my colleague and friend Kim and his family on the <strong>Haparanda archipelago … Continue readingPost Lappish winter memories
Some thoughts from the time I passed riding my aluminium horse through Pippi’s land. If Greta Thunberg is saying that our house is on fire you should know that this metaphor isn’t so far from the reality, and not only in Sweden. Last summer there … Continue readingSome thoughts from on the aluminium horse while riding Pippi’s land