Articles populaires – poetic views of urban chaos

5 février 2007

Le bonheur de découvrir la derniére pièce du puzzle

Only a few old houses in the southern part of the Brussels EU Quarter between the European Parliament and the Council survived the euro-construction binge of the 1960s: entire swathes of the city were razed to the ground to make way for the tedious if...

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6 février 2007

The joy of meeting a lion on a tram

Unlike in Prague, the chances of seeing a pickpocket or a ticket inspector on a Brussels tram are rather slim. The most you have to brace yourself for is facing an ex or... a lion. This poster th at I discovered near the central train station in Luxembourg...

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7 février 2007

Le dernier accordeonist dans le metro?

Anyone who hasn't seen this gentleman or one of his many colleagues from the south-eastern fringes of the EU probably doesn't use public transport in Brussels. As for the rest of us, we've grown used to the sight, to hearing the rather limited repertoire...

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11 février 2007

Le bonheur de passer un weekend a Paris

A truly marvellous and unforgettable weekend in Paris. An almost non-stop flood of intense exeperiences, both cultural and otherwise... On Saturday evening, I was invited to see a short play called Judith written by Howard Barker staged at the Theatre...

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16 février 2007

An afternoon on place Ambiorix

A mere stone's throw from the EU institutions, place Ambiorix is a green and restful oasis with lawns, fountains, and statues, and boasts some outstanding examples of art-nouvaux architecture including the famous Maison Cyr (currently under reconstruction)....

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21 février 2007

A Passage to India

Inexplicably yet inexorably, my attention has recently been drawn towards India in general and Indians in particular. It feels almost like some weird gravitational pull drawing me to the orbit of India’s rising star... My original, and still the deepest...

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25 février 2007

Along the Bruxelles-Charleroi Canal

Sadly, Brussels lost its river in the 19th century, when someone apparently decided it occupies too much space. The only body of water remotely similar to a river is the Bruxelles-Charleroi Canal. Except that its still waters are not exactly full of charm,...

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1 mars 2007

The strangest buildings in Brussels

One of the defining features of the urban landscape of Brussels is its apparent lack of uniformity, harmony, or indeed any discernable sense of a whole. As if the notion of urban planning was considered largely superfluous. One can thus find incredibly...

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5 mars 2007

The Pavilion of Human Passions

Commissioned by the Belgian state in 1890, inaugurated in 1898, and closed down three days afterwards... until 2004. Such is, in a nutshell, the history of the Pavilion of Human Passions, which stands in one of the corners of the Parc du Cinquantenaire,...

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2 mars 2007

Testing a new camera...

Got my first proper camera today... don't know if I didn't overblow it, since while I could carry my previous compact virtually unnoticed, now I get stopped by strangers asking things like: 'Is this the new 18-200mm anti-vibration lense? Excellent stuff!'...

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11 mars 2007

Petrin Hill, Prague

The notion of taking a romantic walk on Petrin hill with our beloved has become a bit of a Prague clich é. Yet as some of my own first dates did indeed take place right here under the cover of these magnificent trees, the place still holds a certain spell...

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5 mars 2007

House of Records

Meanwhile in downtown Brussels, not far from the Bourse, one could witness a rather different slant of human passion: a well known flemmish music-club in the Beursschowburg was temprorarily transformed into the House of Records, where people were free...

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3 février 2007

My Fat Greek Wedding

A sunny Saturday ideal for a bit of urban exploration. Just my luck... in the morning I accidentaly gate-crashed a Greek-orthodox wedding! After innocently strolling along rue de Midi, and further on to rue de Stalingrad, I came to the Brussels Orthodox...

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11 mars 2007

A week in Prague, disguised as a tourist

Showing friends round Prague has the double advantage of spending time in pleasant company, and having the opportunity to see familiar sights of one's native city from a fresh perspective, often as if for the first ti me, noticing new DETAILS (see the...

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4 mars 2007

A tour of Matonge

Matonge happens to be a quarter of Kinshasa, known for its lively atmosphere, rich night-life, and abundance of lychee fruit. Africans coming to Belgium have start ed applying the name to a part of Ixelles that begins at Porte de Namur but no one knows...

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3 février 2007

Le bonheur de boir un café a Café Belga

In the afternoon I roamed around the dilapidated streets of central Brussels between Gare du Midi and Blvd de Waterloo, amazed at various forms of graffitti on the wall, and passing by a koranic school... In the afternoon I wandered up and down Ixelles,...

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4 février 2007

Le bonheur de faire du lèche-vitrines sur Ch. de Waterloo

Countless sense objects vie for our attention along the Chaussee de Waterloo (not to be confused with the boulevard of the same name), flashing and glaring at us from behind the windows of all the various design - home decoration - lighting - fabric and...

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8 avril 2007

Easter Sunday...

According to the barbaric Czech Easter tradition, men weilding these long whiplike implements weaved from willow branches and called 'pomlázka', are expected to approach women, and basically beat them (albeit gently) until they are offered - coloured...

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24 juin 2007

Marathon photo FNAC, Bruxelles

On Sunday, Miss Stephanie (see her blog HERE) enlisted me in her team for a photo competition organised by Fnac (a French multimedia shopping chain). The rules were simple: teams of two were supposed to scour the city, hunting for photos expressing themes...

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6 mars 2007

The joy of braving Brussels weather...

The fact that I didn't have my new camera with me didn't make these scenes any less amusing...

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17 mars 2007

Life is as fleeting as a bubble...

Petrin Hill, Prague, taken on 11.03.2007

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9 mars 2007

A foray into Schaerbeek

Schaerbeek, Brussels

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15 mars 2007

A safe landing

paedestrian zone Prikopy, centre of Prague

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13 mars 2007

A little taste of P.E.E.

the so called 'Lennon Wall', Prague

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11 mars 2007

A window of opportunity

Uvoz - on the way to the Castle, Prague

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