Photography & travel

ÉVORA #3

It is not always the case that the third time is the good time. We experienced this when were treated with heavy rain showers during our third stay at Alentejo. It was so bad that the day before our departure, Lisbon airport was even closed for several hours. But fortunately for us, the sun occasionally broke through the grey blanket of clouds so we planned several small trips around the area.For our first excursion we picked Monsaraz, a cozy fortified village on the right margin of the river Guadiana near the border of Spain. Which is about a 1hr drive …

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Genève un après-midi culturel

Quoi faire when the sky is heavy and you’re longing for some brain food.Visit a museum. Or even better, visit 2 museums!Musée d’Art et d’Histoire and MAMCO it is.The clock on the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire’s facade is actually a counter, counting down to the end of the world. To be more precise, the extinction of the sun. Switzerland is not really known for its museums, nor are they numerous, but sometimes you still get surprised. Our first visit was so-so, but the second one was yippie.The building itself has a lot of grandeur but the collection is missing an …

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PAUL KLEE

What to do on a cloudy & rainy day. Just stay in bed, read a book or visit a museum? We decided to go for the last option, after we stayed a bit longer in bed as usual, and drove to Bern. Destination Zentrum Paul Klee. The building on it’s own is already a piece of art. It blends wonderfully well with the surrounding area. It sits half hidden in the ground, and what is visible looks like a set of rolling hills. Design is from Renzo Piano. Paul Klee, was a Swiss born German artist. At age of 1 …

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Yuri Gagarin

The cosmonaut you mean? Yes, the one and only who made it to orbit in 1961. Hey, that was way before the Americans reached the moon. No?Yuri stayed 3 times in the Voyennyy Sanatoriy Mork in Tamga. On our way to Bokonbayevo we decided to visit this little gem. The place is a pearl, and on top well preserved. You can actually book a room and stay a night if you wish to revive the Russian athletic spirit. We didn’t. Walking around the park searching for a Yuri Gagarin monument we noticed several people painting stuff & weeding the area. …

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VEBEKE FOUNDATION

Photo’s are all taken at the Verbeke Foundation.12 hectares of scenic area and 20000m2 of covered exhibition space.If you enjoy nature & love art, i strongly advise you to visit this. Extract from the official flyer Our exhibition space does not aim to be an oasis. Our presentation is unfinished, in motion, unpolished, contradictory, untidy, complex, inharmonious, living and un-monumental, like the world outside the museum walls. You will find no flamboyant sensational buildings here, but rather a refreshing, unpretentious place to look at art and a subtle criticism of the art world. (Tom Ronse)

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