In the morning of the second day of my journey to Berlin, I made a walk of about 12km, through the city of Hannover. I found it an interesting and very beautiful city. Sometimes it was pitiful for the pictures that it was grey, clouded, winter weather. But I enjoyed visiting this German city very…
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This is a night walk, of about 4km, through the old parts of Hannover, Germany. I visited Hannover in December 2018, on my way to Berlin, where I was going to visit a friend for some days. Not exactly sure why I choose to visit this city on my way to Berlin and not knowing…
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GERMANY – The wall used to stand just a few hundred meters from my first address in Berlin, on the other side of the tracks at Schönholz S-Bahn station. The people whose apartment I lived in told me that the whole neighbourhood (including a good friend of mine, who was too young to remember it)…
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GERMANY – In this post, I will show you some winter shots of Reinickendorf, the northern borough of Berlin where I spent my first 7 months in the city. Reinickendorf has about 250,000 inhabitants and covers 89.5 square kilometres, making it roughly the same size as my previous home towns Utrecht and Liège. This makes…
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GERMANY / POLAND – Most people have heard of Frankfurt am Main, an international center of finance, industry and transport. But there is another Frankfurt, which, even though no one has heard of it, is even more international by virtue of it being in two countries. I’m talking about Frankfurt an der Oder, which is…
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GERMANY – While on holiday in Berlin in December 2015, I borrowed my friends bike and started to explore the part of the former DDR (the former communist East Germany, for those of you who don’t know) just outside the city, starting in Brandenburg an der Havel. It was an interesting experience, due to both…
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BELGIUM/FRANCE – What to do on new year’s day? Party until 11 in the morning and sleep for the rest of the day? Visit family and friends? Go for a walk? Or why not go for a 1300 kilometer drive, along as few as possible motorways, and include as many as possible pointless detours? My…
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PORTUGAL – The capital of Portugal is a magnificent city. But having visited it after Portugal’s even more spectacular second city, Porto, I found it much more ordinary and less exotic. I would probably have made many more pictures of Lisbon if I had visited it first. But that doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy it,…
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PORTUGAL – I’m not usually a fan of exaggerated titles, but for me, no word describes Portugal’s second city better than ‘spectacular’.
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BELGIUM – The winter of 2014-15 only lasted one day. And on that day, December the 28th, my friend and WPP co-founder and I set out to continue our exploration of provincial Belgium between my home in Liège and his home in Rijkevorsel. Setting out from Rijkevorsel, we drove south through the Kempen, an empty…
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BELGIUM – Halle (pop.: 38,000) is a provincial Flemish (Dutch-speaking) town sandwiched between Brussels 10 kilometers to the north and Wallonia (the French-speaking part of Belgium) 3 kilometers to the south. It is therefore somehow different from everything that surrounds it. It is also rather a pretty little town. Pictures taken on 2007-12-15 and 2016-01-16. 1….
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BELGIUM – To the east of Liège lies a region that I have always found particularly atmospheric and mysterious: the Pays de Herve, or land of Herve. I went for a walk there with a friend on a snowy day in February 2013. 1. To get to the starting point of our walk, we had…
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BELGIUM / FRANCE – A week’s excursion in what has to be one of the most picturesque corners of the Ardennes.
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BELGIUM – Limburg is the name of two provinces, one in the Netherlands, and the other in Flanders, the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium. Neither has much to do with the historic Duchy of Limburg, which was an independent country from the 10th to 18th centuries. Most of the Duchy of Limburg lay to the south…
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BELGIUM – Tubize (NL: Tubeke) is a French-speaking municipality just south of the Flemish town of Halle, and less than 20 kilometers south of Brussels. I have been there often with my dad since I was small, not only because of the pleasant countryside that surrounds the town itself, but also because of something that triggered an interest that I still have today.
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