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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.
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Breaking the law with a sliding door

7 August, 20178 July, 2015

In which we ride the Brussels metro, break the law and chopped by a sliding door. Also some musing about corporal punishment as a learning aid.
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Our first visitor in Brussels – Cousin Michael

10 July, 20171 July, 2015

In which Cousin Michael comes on a visit and gets shown around some of our favourite Brussels sights (and sites) – hopefully not walked off his feet.
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Chagall

14 July, 20183 June, 2015

A blog entry about the Chagall Retrospective at the Brussels Museum of Fine Art, and about memory, colour and light with a side step to the Tudeley windows. More…

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The Royal Greenhouses at Laeken

18 May, 20178 May, 2015

A stop in Brussels to visit the Royal Greenhouses at Laeken – crowded and tiring but fascinating and resulting in a satisfactory crop of photos.
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An Easter walk in Hisingspark

11 November, 201716 April, 2015

A walk in Hisingspark in a short series of photos taken on Easter Sunday walk with our friend Lena and Aliz the border collie.
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Busking before the Goddess

5 November, 201714 April, 2015

In the Nordstan shopping centre, Gothenburg, a busker playing his accordian dwarfed by the image of a commercial goddess.
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Welcome to Stops and stories

9 April, 201712 April, 2015

A welcome and a brief outline of what readers can expect from Stops and Stories in the coming months. Also a glimpse of my tax declaration travails.
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Midwinter solstice

9 November, 201821 December, 2010

Midwinter solstice – a series of 4 photos taken roughly every 2 hours to illustrate how short a winter’s day can be at this latitude.
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A Letter from Sweden

23 March, 201723 June, 2010

This is my second voice recording in the series “Letters from Northern Lands”. This episode visits Swedish Midsummer, the recent Royal Wedding in Stockholm and the way the Swedish media has reported it, and considers whether Sweden is a monarchy or really a closet republic.
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    Book Boxes of Brussels – Les boites à livres

Recently at Stops & Stories

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    The Steve McCurry photo exihibition at the Brussels Bourse in 2017. A belated photo essay, review and meditation on the ethics of photography.
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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.

TheSupercargo’s most popular posts in the last 6 months

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    Six decades of a date – the thirtieth of July
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    How to train your Dragon – writing diary
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    When did they begin, the Beguine?
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    The famous Brussels pissing contest
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    Time travel at the Brussels Atomium

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