10 everyday photo moments in Hong Kong, captured on an iPhone and edited with Blackie mobile app
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Inertia
It’s taking longer than expected to set up home in Hong Kong. Hence the radio silence. Publication on this site will resume soon. More to come!
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Putting down roots in Hong Kong
It has only been three weeks since I left Brussels for Hong Kong but it feels longer than that. It’s as if I’ve been catapulted into a fast-forward mode after an extended dormant period.
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From print to screen
Would you read a book if you’ve already seen the film that was based on it, and vice versa?
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Counting down to Hong Kong
Moving from sleepy Brussels with its perpetual gloomy weather to the bustling East Asian metropolis that is Hong Kong will be a welcome change. I can’t wait!
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Vignettes of Japan #13: “Hoto” oden on a rainy evening
Oden Miyuki Honten serves up delicious oden from large vats of simmering dashi stock. Perfect food for cold, wet days in Kanazawa, Japan.
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Truman Capote: Breakfast at Tiffany’s + A Christmas Memory
Simple, beautiful prose by Truman Capote, presented in four short stories. While I was impressed with Breakfast at Tiffany’s, A Christmas Memory is my favourite of the lot (even though I found it to be the saddest tale of the lot).
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Passing through Oran, Algeria
A brief glimpse of the streets and European influences in Algeria’s second largest city
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Soji Shimada: The Tokyo Zodiac Murders
The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada is an entertaining and brilliant example of the Honkaku genre in Japanese crime fiction where the mystery is solved using logical reasoning.
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