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Atomic Views

-Look Up, Look Down Challenge, Week 54 Every Thursday, I publish a post containing photo(s) taken from above or below, and invite you to join in the challenge by posting your own […]

The Knight Adventurer Reaches Brussels

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza stroll cheerfully through the Place d’Espagne in Brussels.  In the late afternoon sun their so-easily identifiable silhouette reminded me of Picasso’s famous black and white drawing of […]

Spicy Window

This is one inviting grocery store in Brussels. English speakers who don’t speak French would probably guess that the name of this store has something to do with spices, and that wouldn’t […]

Sprouting Up in Brussels

Many of my recent travels seem to have resulted in the same mantra- “miserable grey, wet and cold: must return in better weather to explore properly”. This tree looks good […]

Beyond Hope

There’s a Congolese artist, known to some as “Papa Machete”, who produces some thought-provoking and somewhat disturbing sculptures. Freddy Tsimba was born in Kinshasa in 1967 and studied at the […]

Mural Lowdown

This long, narrow black and white mural is easily missed, sitting as it does, beneath the lower step leading to Saint Boniface Church in the Ixelles area of Brussels. Linked […]

Water Tank in Ixelles

-Look Up, Look Down Challenge, Week 24 Every Thursday, I publish a post containing photo(s) taken from above or below, and invite you to join in the challenge by posting your own photos with […]