I lived in Brussels from 1995 to 2000. In many ways, these were some of the
happiest years of my life. Brussels, despite the crappy climate, is one of the
world's best places to live. So I always enjoy going back there. During those
visits there are certain places I always pass by. One of those places is a
second-hand bookshop in a neighbourhood of Ixelles called Matongé, or Little
Zaire. As the name implies, it is a place with many African immigrants, but
Brussels is a city where cultures very much mix, so you see all kinds of people
there. The bookshop is called Librairie Hankard. I photographed it back in
2001, during one of my first visits back after moving to Zurich:
http://www.frozenlight.eu/nathanfoto/paw/48.jpg
On Thursday, I was in the neighbourhood again, and I was pleased to see that
the bookshop was still in business. I walked in, and chatted with the lady. It
turned out that her son-in-law works for the Benelux Intellectual Property
Office and therefore sometimes has to travel to Alicante to visit the EU IP
office where I work. It is a small world indeed. I had a nice chat with her,
bought a book (I am physically incapable of walking into this kind of bookshop
without buying a book), and took at picture:
http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=2356423952&k=h2cRpDP&lb=1&s=O
Both pictures with Leica equipment: the 2001 picture with an M3 on Ilford Delta
3200, this weeks picture with my M8.
Cheers,
Nathan
Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
http://www.frozenlight.eu
http://www.greatpix.eu
PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
YNWA
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