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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.

A Beginner’s Guide to the Bruegel Fountains of Brussels

22 August, 20181 August, 2018

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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Brussels parakeets make the world a better place – or don’t

22 August, 201818 July, 2018

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

10 July, 20184 July, 2018

The Paddan boats are a popular tourist attraction in Gothenburg. Sometimes it’s fun to play at being a tourist in your home town.
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Skagen – why we went and what we saw

3 October, 201827 June, 2018

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

2 October, 201823 May, 2018

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

11 November, 201724 May, 2017

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

22 August, 201817 May, 2017

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

22 August, 201810 May, 2017

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’

6 May, 20173 May, 2017

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…

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The Red Stone Gallery and the Art Round in Majorna

26 April, 201726 April, 2017

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…

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    The 2018 Gothenburg Book Fair
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    Book Boxes of Brussels – Les boites à livres

Recently at Stops & Stories

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    The Gothenburg disco fire: the worst fire in recent Swedish history took place 20 years ago on the 29th October 1998: 63 died, over 200 were injured.
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    Cook and Book in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert: it's a bookshop and a restaurant, a café and jazz venue. And did I mention it's a bookshop?
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    A photo catch-up in October Brussels
    Back in Brussels for a photo catch-up and an attempt to round off my Brussels years, I don't quite manage, but I do get a lot of pretty decent photos.

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    When did they begin, the Beguine?
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