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Archive for July, 2013

Belgium Warming Up For Coronation

Sunday, July 21st, 2013

Well, at least Brussels is warming up for the coronation of King Philippe/Filip. Saturday it was about going to the ‘Foire du Midi’ followed by dancing, eating sausages or snails, drinking beer and dancing with a crown saying ‘merci’ to abdicating Albert II on your head. Also see here when King Baudouin passed away and […]

Summer? Must be scanning time… Take 3

Saturday, July 20th, 2013

My short yearly trip to Europe has three advantages: I can eat strawberries for breakfast, and I can scan old negatives while AT THE SAME TIME watching the Tour de France. A few old photographs never edited/never scanned/never published: people in various physical performances…

Summer? Must be scanning time… Take 2

Thursday, July 18th, 2013

My short yearly trip to Europe has three advantages: I can eat strawberries for breakfast, and I can scan old negatives while AT THE SAME TIME watching the Tour de France. A few photographs never edited/never scanned/never published from the refugee camps in Honduras, back in 1988. More on those here.

Summer? Must be scanning time…

Monday, July 15th, 2013

My short yearly trip to Europe has three advantages: I can eat strawberries for breakfast, and I can scan old negatives while AT THE SAME TIME watching the Tour de France. A few of the never edited/never published/never scanned photographs from my 1985 trip to Burkina Faso. From the story ‘Water in Sahel‘ you can […]

Golden Spurs Celebration…

Friday, July 12th, 2013

In the series ‘This is not Belgium’… On July 11th in 1302, a bunch of Flemish beat the shit out of an army of French knights and took their golden spurs as a trophy. So goes the story… It has become the day for the Flemish Community of Belgium to remind the other French speaking […]

Checking It Out…

Friday, July 5th, 2013

Checking out things in the other Kingdom of Wonder… I’m off to Brussels tonight. Staying there for the next three weeks… More on Belgium at these links: here, here, and here. And more recently here and here.

The Other Front…

Thursday, July 4th, 2013

It is not all about demonstrations… The Boeung Kak Lake community organised a press conference a couple of hours ago as it has to face dissensions and several allegations of corruption which were triggered by a series of films posted on Youtube at the beginning of the legislative elections campaign. The origin of the films […]

King Goes, King Comes…

Thursday, July 4th, 2013

King Albert II abdicated in favour of Prince Filip. Here is when King Baudouin passed away and he became King. And yes, this is happening in Belgium. More on Belgium at these links: here, here, and here. And more recently here and here.