Little brown bag
Little brown bag: The coming of obligatory separated organic rubbish collection to Brussels. I apply it with Swedish-style rigour, though no one else seems to.
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Stops and Stories
TheSupercargo’s travel blog
This blog is about…
- travel and travel writing (real and fabulous),
- travel photography,
- meditations on travel,
- maps and guides of many sorts,
- people met and sights seen along the way…
- and a bit more besides.
Unholy beer: People watching at Brussels airport
Belgian beer isn’t to everyone’s taste – in fact some clearly think it’s unholy! Snapshots of people seen and overheard recently at Brussels Airport.
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Proof of identity
Identity and its documentation – the story of my search for Swedish citizenship, my passport’s peregrinations and my own recent cross-border journeys without proper identity documents.
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All that Jazz – after-hours in Saint Joos
You can only see the jazz heroes of Saint Joos after hours. A walk through the gallery of jazz musicians on the roller shutters of shops along the Chausée de Louvain in Saint-Joos-ten-Noode, Brussels. More…
A couple of days in Maastricht
Maastricht in the Netherlands – celebrating Mrs SC’s birthday, we spent a couple of days in this charming, picturesque little Dutch city. The old town is built for walkers and walk we did. And take photos.
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Wounds and scar tissue
This week, wounds and scar tissue. Not one of my usual efforts, though it is a kind of a Stop and a kind of a Story. I want to give some explanation of why I’ve not been enthusiastically blogging the last few weeks. It all starts with my birth…
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Remembrance Day 2016, Brussels
Remembrance Day 2016 as commemorated in Brussels and a meditation (or a rant) on the meaning of the day, plus an apology for the recent break in service. Also a little gallery of photos. More…
Bird houses and play houses in Hisingspark
Bird houses and play houses – a couple of photographs from Sunday’s walk in Hisingspark. It’s dull and damp but very autumnal. More…
Yoko Tsuno reflected – on the Brussels Comic Strip Route
Yoko Tsuno reflected: A visit to Japanese engineer Yoko Tsuno’s strip frame at Rue Terre-Neuve on the Brussels Comic Book Route More…
New York Stories
New York Stories, the people who tell them.and the photographer who reports. A review of a photo-book that recently seduced me in a bookshop.
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