Barring my Grandmother, my Aunt Hélène is by far the most generous person in my life. As she has told me often, giving is her greatest joy, and to gift…

This will be an exercise in memory. In the first years of my childhood, my parents often took my sister and I travelling around the Provence, mostly choosing sleepy towns…

Most people say to believe in mythical creatures is a children’s game. They insist the strange characters and colourful souls from folklore tales and old legends are just that, figments…

I am greeted by my Italian girlfriend wearing her khaki skirt over a pair of black leather boots, matched by a silky black top and her lovely curls. Nearly mute…

This one will be a bit different. No diary, I just intend to write down some memories and impressions that went through my mind the past months. Of course we…

I would be surprised if it’s common to people my age, celebrating a best friendship that has lasted without interruption for ten heartfelt years. My first weeks in highschool were…

I will tell you two short anecdotes from a recent trip to Andalucia. It is, more or less, the most southerly part of Europe, at least of the mainland, and…

Naast een lang weekend Parijs is deze week op Madeira onze eerste echte reis samen. We ontmoetten elkaar vier maanden geleden en tot nu toe waren het uitsluitend zachte verhalen,…

The camel grows long eyelashes, thick thistles to break the wind that blows biting sand as a mist over the black deserts of Central Asia. Heavy metal through his nose,…

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…