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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 maart 2015

08 maart 2015

Mystery of my defective camera


the last pictures of my broken camera: a neighbor and a visitor behind a veil; the light became vague and misty; the bird and the mannequin feel at ease; the eye of the camera opened once and no more; it's a strange day; the bird will not fly anymore, the mannequin will not blink anymore.