Places
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Warning. Strange dog.
Charming as the Belgian countryside is, a wanderer starts to fret if they are cooped up for too long in the same place. This particular walk today was perhaps one of the less interesting of many otherwise…
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The sky’s the limit at the Arboretum
I’ve been visiting the Arboretum, a stretch of forest lying between Overijse and Tervuren, ever since I came to Belgium in 2004. The first time was on a cold November weekend, one of my very first training…
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“Even an empty field is beautiful in Overijse”…
… is what a friend commented to me when she saw this picture on Facebook. It’s true, but beauty also requires a good camera, taking care to compose a picture that balances various elements in a harmonious…
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An oasis of colour
It’s impressive how much the accuracy of weather forecasts has improved since the last century. I remember clearly when they used to be standard joke material. Not any more. We now always have available a pretty accurate…
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Reflections under lockdown
Mid-March, 2020, the evening sky was on fire. An impressive backdrop to a Europe that was sliding into lockdown to counter the coronavirus epidemic. A month later, many of us are suffering, if not through serious illness…
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The Roaring Twenties?
I realise that I had not contributed one word yet to the world of blogging during the roaring 20s. Roaring? The reader should well ask. The twenties may have roared a hundred years ago, but for the…
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The bleak beauty of December
Every now and then, while doing my job as a wanderer, the view turns into a beautiful picture. Quite suddenly. This happened to me the other time in mid December while coming back from a cold and…
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Morning glory in Brussels
To burn a few calories and thereby avoid putting on weight, now that I can’t do much sports anymore, I sometimes get out of the train two stops away from the office and walk the rest of…
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La Butte du Lion in Waterloo
Two hundred and four years ago, in 1815 close to Waterloo in Belgium, about 40,000 men died fighting each other, ‘for their countries’. Many others where maimed for life. These and other victims of war are glorified…
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