Posts Tagged ‘What’

You may have suffered from the stereotypical mis-perception that Belgium is not the most interesting of places, and and that Brussels has nothing much going on beyond the European Parliament and museums filled with Old Flemish masters.

Well, like me, you’d be wrong. Brussels is a beautiful city. Unexpectedly chaotic, hilly and fragmented, it mixes sumptuous architecture with seedy waterfront districts; fancy chocolate emporiums (more…)

By Sarah Maxwell from Palabras de Portenos.

Tango dancers in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Photo by Marlis Seelos.

Here I sit in the patio of a café in Buenos Aires’s small but vibrant Chinatown, dunking a biscotti into a cup of espresso, an indulgence enjoyed underneath the simple pleasure of a tree’s leafy shade. Life is good. The smells of cocina asiatica waft through the air, and the Spainese mix the cooks speak (more…)