Antwerp – “Antwerp is not a city that makes you immediately lose your heart. It is not Hamburg, Ghent or Seville. It’s not the city where you stroll in the shade of trees along centuries-old canals, while listening to the whims of tropical birds, where you see the Art Nouveau facades, and you think to yourself: “My god, how incredibly beautiful! “Here you have to dance at Kiebooms, read Elschot and walk in the snow.
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Poland – There is little left of the rich Jewish history of Tarnow after the Second World War. Yet Tarnow is the city where a remarkable love story begins. Between a Jewish woman and a Catholic man. Imprisoned in Auschwitz, they manage to escape together. They lose each other and find each other once again almost 40 years later.
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World – That girls have fewer opportunities than boys, we have noticed during our travels. Being women, the bad situation of girls, concerns us. Based on various reports we made a list of the worst countries to grow up as a girl.
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Faroe Islands – The Faroe Islands are a special archipelago. Formally Danish but with their own parliament and a quirky population. They are averse to peer pressure, have their own Google Street View using sheep. Faroe Islands also means Sheep Islands.
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Berlin – Kreuzkölln. Don’t look for it on the map, because it isn’t there. What you will find is Neukölln. And then there is Kreuzberg pinched between former GDR boroughs. And right where those boroughs touch, is the fictional Kreuzkölln.
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Bosnia – “I think I could just eat you”. It is not as much the text, as the unsavory gesture of the man as he places his hand on my breast, that worries me. The hand is placed close to my heart and the man is a hunter.
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Akre – While the population of Iraq is fleeing to escape the violence of IS, the existing camps are still full of Syrian refugees. Hope feels like a concept from a previous world.
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Nepal – The earthquake in Nepal may also cause casualties among the survivors, fears Nomad.
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Uganda – “I have the feeling that you’ve been to the moon and back, while we are still digging holes”, Mathias exclaims at the end of an intensive two day workshop about social media.
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Leuven – She is the oldest university in the Low Countries and still popular among students from all over the world. Africans come to study canonical law, others the Artois beer.
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