Stories
Stories
Every picture tells a story
Here we like to share stories that come with a picture or the other way round.
Palm Sunday in Mérida
Travel Palm Sunday in Mérida The popular procession known as “la borriquita” (or “little donkey”) marks the start of the celebration of Easter Week...
Bullfighting – arenas and posters
Stories Bullfighting – arenas and posters A short introduction to our interest in bullfighting arenas and more Bull fighting is not a sport. It...
Mirador de la memoria
Stories Mirador de la Memoria A tribute to all the victims of the Spanish Civil War The Silence of Others The Silence of Others,...
Mogarraz
Stories Mogarraz A story about a small Spanish village, a photographer and a painter Portraits on the walls Mogarraz is a municipality located in...
Oradour-sur-Glane Souviens toi – Remember
Stories Oradour-sur-Glane Souviens toi – Remember The drama of Oradour-sur-Glane In 2021 we visited the village of Kalávryta in the Peloponnese in Greece, where...
The Muslim community in Thrace
Stories The Muslim community in Thrace First introduction to Thrace On our last trip through Greece, where the focus was on the north of...
Seals at the Westerschelde river
Stories Seals at the Westerschelde river Encounters in the early morning with young seals at the Westerschelde in Zeeland The location Every morning we...
Sacred little houses of Greece
Stories Sacred little houses of Greece A story about kandilakia or proskynitaria, or as the vernacular also calls them ikonnísmata or ekklisákia, ‘devotion houses’...
Rotterdam – The Depot
Rotterdam The Depot The Depot of the museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Hidden Treasures Rotterdam is, I believe, one of the most interesting and beautiful...
Cities of the Hanseatic League – II
Stories Cities of the Hanseatic League (II) The first time that we wrote about the Hanseatic League was in 2019 when we visited Deventer,...
Down memory lane – Istanbul
Stories Down memory lane – Istanbul One of the most beautiful cities in the world In September 1993 we visited Istanbul for the first...
The cemetery of Bagolino
Stories The old cemetery of Bagolino When we travel we often visit cemeteries. All the graves have a story to tell. The graves represent...
Sjak Zwier – guitar builder
When leaving Greece in 1999 I got as present from my Greek colleagues an old bouzouki. We love Greek music and we have been...
Highland cattle at the Westerschelde river
The Westerschelde river is very close to our house, in fact it is at the end of the small rural road along which we...
Cities of the Hanseatic League
Stories Cities of the Hanseatic League The Hanseatic League was a commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Northwestern and Central...
Story “The Westergren family”
Art in Denmark – The Westergren Family On our latest journey in Denmark we suddenly came across a group of sculptures on a hill....
In Flanders Fields
A new long term project, that I started to work on is the Great War. Regretfully, due to Covid-19, the project is temporarily on...
