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Walking to work on an Autumn morning

We were blessed with some unusually warm and sunny days during the past week and I decided to walk to work, a habit I had given up on lately, in order to save myself 10 minutes of walking and 5 minutes...

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The Meantime – 9 stories from Brussels

They arrive on high-speed trains and budget flights. They travel light. They pass through security scanners and station forecourts, flat-share websites and admin offices. They come for work or love or...

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Bookswapping in Brussels

Yesterday the monthly meeting of the Brussels Bookswappers Club took place. After some hesitation on account of my recent tooth surgery, I decided to go anyway. And I am happy I did. Not only did i...

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Pictures: A week of winter

Even after 16 years in Belgium snow and ice feel like home to me. Maybe it’s in my genes. Anyway, despite the outrageous workload this past week I have managed to enjoy the snow on my way to work, and...

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The City

When they see the city, they see the cinemas, the shops, the restaurants. They see the bars, the cafés, the theaters and museums. They see new people, possibilities, opportunities. They see life and...

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The Return of the Rain

Brussels is returning back to normal after a few lovely weeks of winter. Gone are gently falling flakes of snow, replaced by the usual never-ending rain. And I am not talking about sudden passionate...

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Losing my way in Brussels

Compared to the straight clean lines of Helsinki, the convoluted pattern of the Brussels street map seems like a warp in the fabric of space itself. Is it just paranoia, or do les Rues, les Avenues,...

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Pictures: Winter walks in Forest de Soignes

Having a dog changes ones life in many ways. Once upon a time I spent my week-ends curled up in the sofa, with a cup of tea in one hand and book in the other. Nowadays I am trudging through mud, trying...

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Autumn

I have not spent an autumn in Finland for 16 years, but in my memories Finnish autumn is full of colour. Maples blazing and birches dripping gold. The Finnish word for this phenomenon is ruska. Belgian...

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Bookswappers Club competition: What it Means to be European

I am back from Berlin and utterly exhausted after one and a half days of conference and one and a half days of sight-seeing. I will tell you all about that later, but now I am just writing a quick post...

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