Mr.Cools' Planet - Welkom! Welcome!

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

30 augustus 2014

North sea jazz festival

Vandaag geen kikkers gezien, wel cicades gehoord en dat gedurende het North Sea Jazz Festival op Curacao.

24 augustus 2014

Boekbespreking Butcher' s Crossing






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John Edwards Williams ,    Butcher' s Crossing

13 augustus 2014

Butcher's Crossing



Het blogspot ontwaakt. Facebook had het overgenomen tijdens een reis van drie maanden door Europa. Maar het is nu terug in de wereld. Over een week verschijnt een bespreking van Butcher's Crossing , van John Williams, een Western van ongekende literaire kracht.