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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

16 november 2010

Lightning

We, my wife and I, are standing in the middle of the house.  I count one second between the lightning and the thunder. The walls aren't on a distance of three hundred meters. Next day, the cable of the telephone on the outside of the wall proves to be burnt. The disconnected modems of the TV and the PC are hit too.  I'm a saint? Or my wife?

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