Any and all roads, that’s how the saying goes, and it might have been true one day. To be found at the end of endless cobbles, orderly and properly arranged…
Any and all roads, that’s how the saying goes, and it might have been true one day. To be found at the end of endless cobbles, orderly and properly arranged…
Plentiful and long is the list of cities with rich histories and surprising tales, but none, perhaps, can match the Queen of Two Continents, Istanbul, straddling both coasts of the…
Scant and scarce is the evidence for a city more ancient and foundational than Athens, amidst freckled islands and the hills of Attica, for over two thousand years a centre…
An evening in Montmartre always has a lot on offer. We dined large snails and onion soup in a traditional bistro and slowly strolled towards Sacre-Coeur, with its white domes…
She’s left for her lectures and I sit alone in my room. Not knowing what to do, and staring at my useless hands, I decide to start cleaning. Creating order…
Where the European map shows a colourful puzzle of interlocking nations, historically competing and fighting for supremacy, building alliances only to enact great betrayals in hopes to come out on…
“Today is our birthday,” and she checks my phone to memorise the date. I don’t understand. With my eyes, I tell her so. She reaches for my hand and begins…
Italy is a strange country. In more ways than one it towers over its peers. The food is world renowned, its cultural heritage spans millennia and has a broader reach…
My mother studied art history, a handful of years before I was born, a period I struggle to imagine. During the lectures she discovered notebooks full of beauty from the…
Ik verken het reguliere stratenplan van Madrid, gelegd na de reizen van Columbus naar het metrum van de koloniserende Romeinen, dat wil zeggen, recht op recht, een mooi ruitenrooster, want…