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Last WWII reads of 2022: book recommendations
Don’t let the title picture fool you into thinking that this is a travel blog about Paris. However, 2 out of today’s book recommendations are set (partly) in Paris, and 1 of them is about visitors and habitants of the Ritz hotel in Paris during WWI, WWII and in the 1960s. Let the Ritz hotel be at the Place Vendome, which is depicted here. Don’t let the title picture fool you into thinking that this is a travel blog about Paris. However, 2 out of today’s book recommendations are set (partly) in Paris, and 1 of them is about visitors and habitants of the Ritz hotel in Paris during WWI,…
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Birthday weekend 2021
In less than 6 months there is another set of candles to blow out on a new birthday cake, so it is about time I take you back to this year’s birthday. That it was going to be again a birthday celebrated in Belgium was already a given as non-essential travel was not allowed until after Easter because of Covid. However, as the numbers were getting higher again it remained still to be seen if it would be a stay-at-home one or if I could make a weekend out of it. The weather forecast was also a typical one for the time of year with March showers. So while I…
