Archive | April, 2009

France, a modest adventure

4 Apr

FIRST DAY IN FRANCE

The first thing we did in France, just across the border, was Kiss. Bien sur! (more…)

Bruxelles: Belgiuque

3 Apr

When you travel slowly, as you do on a bike, you can notice the little changes.

Sailing for two months from the Caribbean to England, the temperature of the air and water decline ever so gradually, day by day, a natural change that is unnoticable except in hindsight.
Approaching the border of a different country, one can detect shifts of dialect in the simple words of neighbors, like a bleeding language buffer on either side of the invisible line – especially in Belgium, where both Dutch and French are official languages of the state.
Geography follows this gentle course as well. (more…)

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