Travel

So the connection here is a little stretched, since it has been three weeks since I left Geneva (and a little more since I left Brussels) but I’ll do what I can.Back to New York to work at the U.N., catch up with some friends (not too many – too busy and the time too …

There’s no question but that Brussels is a very photogenic city, and this amateur photographer enjoying his new hobby had many delightful moments. Like most visitors from America, I often wonder – as I stroll about cities like Berlin, Vienna, Paris, and of course London, what it must be like to have such “monumental” open …

Like the over-the-streets enclosed walkways in Canada and the Northern Middle States in America, the planners of Brussels long ago figured out how to deal with getting the shoppers inside in the winter weather. Somehow I had missed the beautiful “passages” in Brussels when I visited here in the past. Similar to the handsome arcades …

Having spent a lovely day from Nairobi on Kenyan Airlines (“The Pride of Africa” they say – and they could be right) and KLM from Amsterdam, Brussels greeted Mr. Guy with unaccustomed chill. Not the friendliness of the people, of course. Just the weather change. Northern Europe is cold and damp and although the sun …