Salomé in the opera tent
The Théâtre Royal de Liège, home of the Royal Opera of the Wallonia, was closed for several years to be reconstructed and enlarged. When I was there in 2011, I Read More …
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In the footsteps (or wagon ruts) of Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo’s first visit to Liège was in 1840, when he was thirty-eight years old. He was travelling by stagecoach, known in French as a diligence, and was on his Read More …
Jacques Brel’s Marieke in Brugge/Bruges
In the song by Jacques Brel, Marieke was twenty years old when he loved her so much (and so long ago) between the towers of Brugge/Bruges and Gent/Gand in the Read More …
The Dead City
I must admit that I would never have read the novel Bruges-la-Morte by Georges Rodenbach (1855-1898) if it hadn’t later been made into a major opera, Die tote Stadt (The Read More …
Cycling in Brugge
Cycling is a common form of transportation is Brugge, both for tourists and for locals. One-way streets are generally open to cyclists going both directions, and there are numerous signposted bicycle Read More …