Whispering Monuments
EN – You will understand that after a three year long immersion in all things WWI, we looked for a centenary free zone for our summer holidays. Budget as well […]
Tag Archives: Centenary
Applause
EN – I don’t think they feel as if we failed them, the 54.000 souls whose names are engraved at the Menin Gate. I guess they are quite surprised, really. […]
Expansion
EN – April 22, 2015: one hundred years after the first gas attack in history we had wreaths in Boezinge near Ypres, and at the Brooding Soldier in Langemark. A […]
Trees
EN – A warmer air, longer days, louder birdsong: they speak of Spring but the real messengers of the new season are the trees. Previously dead looking woods start growing […]
A Growing Family
EN – Suddenly he appears. A new uncle Leo. Not ‘my’ uncle Leo (the brother of my father) but my father’s uncle Leo who was brother to my grandfather. This […]
Safety in Numbers
“Not what is counted, no, what is recounted is remembered” (Gunter Grass) EN – The number of the fallen. The number of the missing. The number of the graveyards. The […]
Intercontinental Cooking
EN – My regular supermarket has no golden syrup on its shelves. There are no coconut flakes to be found either (raped coconut, yes, but that’s different). I have an […]
