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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

16 juli 2013

Monchique in the Hills

Recently I opened a new facebook website entitled Monchique in the hills. It's a site with pictures of the Portugese town of Monchique, in the Algarve. It provides a collection of albums, a selected collection on the basis of an issue: alleys, cars,  horticulture, buildings, ruins etc  One day I'll write a booklet Life in Monchique.