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Traveling and Writing
This website is about traveling and writing. Being on the move and being emotionally moved. Two different but interconnected things. Spotting places and losing your heart. Temples, pyramids, cities and ruins, forests and mountains, valleys and rivers, volcanoes and lakes, daily life in the streets, the world as habitat for writing.
Read on: In the year 2000

The Author
Derk Cools was born in 1939 in Den Haag / The Haque, the Netherlands. He got his degree in social geography and economics at the University of Utrecht(1958). As a civil servant with the Ministry of Economic Affairs, he developed expertise in regional (economic) planning at home and abroad. In 1994, he retired and moved to the Netherlands Antilles, the island of Curacao. Read on: Since 1995, he traveled

05 december 2010

wikileaks

Democracy:: top down or bottom.up? Did you forget suddenly your lesson? Technology is a competitive edge, isn't it? All of a sudden, you forgot who classified which papers? Oh, boy, memory!!! And sorry, I forgot the Canadian official who publicly threatened to assault/murder Assange. Who is who in this world?

01 december 2010

Bankers

Old Irish Song

In search 
of eu-ros
you-row
and row
your bank
gently down
the stream