A Beginner’s Guide to the Bruegel Fountains of Brussels
The Bruegel Fountains of Brussels, a photo essay. Manneken Pis apart, Brussels is blessed with dozens of public fountains, among them the Bruegel fountains.
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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.
Brussels parakeets make the world a better place – or don’t
Depending on your point of view these Brussels parakeets make the world a better place, or they’re a green menace. Either way they’re not easy to photograph.
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Gothenburg by Paddan – playing at being a tourist
The Paddan boats are a popular tourist attraction in Gothenburg. Sometimes it’s fun to play at being a tourist in your home town. More…
Skagen – why we went and what we saw
To Skagen in Denmark – a long weekend away with Mrs SC in the Danish town of artists, tourists, fisherfolk, history and weather.
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A brief return to Belgium – a photo gallery
A bief return to Brussels for a boring bureaucratic task yields photo-memories of places we planned to visit but never managed during our three years in Belgium.
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In the Dieweg Cemetery – a photo essay
A photo essay from the disused but not quite yet abandoned Dieweg cemetery in Uccle just south-west of Wolvendael park in Uccle.
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Portrait wall at Overleie in Kortrijk
A tourist visit to Kortrijk (Courtai in French) leads us through the town on the Golden Spurs trail and out to Little Buda and a wall of portraits that turns out to be an artistic protest.
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Three incidents in Brussels – people watching
Three incidents from last Sunday that reinforced my appreciation of the truth that problems can be overcome with a little goodwill – and there is always goodwill.
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The students’ day, and the workers’
The students’ day, and the workers’ – Valborg on the 30th April and Labour Day on the 1st May – two events that together usher in the spring in Sweden. More…
The Red Stone Gallery and the Art Round in Majorna
The Art Round in Majorna (Konstrunden i Majorna) 2017 is the 20th in series. There’s something I find very attractive about visiting artists’ studios. Fuel for my pipe dreams. At the same time it’s inspiring to meet artists surrounded by their work and talk with them about their art. More…