Yeah, I detest Brussels, but love Bruges, Ghent, Leuven, Antwerp etc
(apologies to my southern Walloon neighbours)
Jez
On 09/02/2013, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I can't be as enthusiastic about Brussels as you, Nathan: it's enormously
> expensive, it embodies the worst of the EU (along with Strasbourg) and I
> have some built-in antipathy to Belgium.
>
> But it is a beautiful city and I like your pictures.
>
> Chris
> On 8 Feb 2013, at 20:13, Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> kinds of people there. The bookshop is called Librairie Hankard. I
>> photographed it back in 2001, during one of my first visits back after
>> moving to Zurich:
>> http://www.frozenlight.eu/nathanfoto/paw/48.jpg
>>
>> On Thursday, I was in the neighbourhood again, and I was pleased to see
>> that the bookshop was still in business. I walked in, and chatted with the
>> lady. It turned out that her son-in-law works for the Benelux Intellectual
>> Property Office and therefore sometimes has to travel to Alicante to visit
>> the EU IP office where I work. It is a small world indeed. I had a nice
>> chat with her, bought a book (I am physically incapable of walking into
>> this kind of bookshop without buying a book), and took at picture:
>> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=2356423952&k=h2cRpDP&lb=1&s=O
>>
>> Both pictures with Leica equipment: the 2001 picture with an M3 on Ilford
>> Delta 3200, this weeks picture with my M8.
>
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