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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.
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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

15 juli 2012

Praag mei 1942, mei 2012 (Prague may 1942, may 2012)




Allereerst: zie mijn nieuwe bespreking van het boek HHhH van Laurent Binet. Wie van Praag houdt, leest het. Wie het fascisme verafschuwt leest het. Wie moed bewondert. leest dit boek kritisch. Bookreview in Dutch)

08 juli 2012

Traditional Water System in Portugal: the Nora



                                      The Nora and its Shadow

01 juli 2012

Sunrise in Monchique




The day of the potato and the lemon, the sun switches on the light in the lantern on our balcony and then we descend to the square where the vendors sell their special stuff.

Op de dag van de aardappel en de citroen steekt de zon bij opgang in Monchique de lantaarn op het balkonnetje aan en dalen we af naar het plein met de standjes in opbouw.