Posts Tagged ‘Brussels’

destination (en) afrique

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Matongé is part of Ixelles, a well-known municipality of Brussels. Immigrants from Congo  named it after a market place in Kinshasa. People always take a bit of home with them when moving to foreign countries. Once, I almost decided to live there, and sometimes I regret having decided against it. What would I have brought there from home?

Ixelles - Matongé

bruxelles ma belle!

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Walking from Gare du Nord towards Ixelles emerges to a journey through Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Brussels is a melting pot of  different cultures, although critics say that its segregated cultures living their own lifes. Still, for a visitor it is astonishing and amazing.