Guillaume de Bassompierre
- May 31, 2020
- 3 min
Travel in music: Chapter 11 - 2000, Panamá
2020, the world is in confinement because of a corona virus. I have used this time to reminisce on my past through a musical blog series. They will take you through my peregrinations on this tiny, unique earth, in chronological order. Click on the song, use it as soundtrack, and enjoy! 2000 - Chapter 11 | Panama was my second project with the bizarre company I had just joined but it felt like the first where I truly immersed myself into the ‘not just a job, a lifestyle’ catch
Guillaume de Bassompierre
- May 30, 2020
- 2 min
Travel in music: Chapter 10 - 2000, Spain (part II)
2020, the world is in confinement because of a corona virus. I have used this time to reminisce on my past through a musical blog series. They will take you through my peregrinations on this tiny, unique earth, in chronological order. Click on the song, use it as soundtrack, and enjoy! 2000 - Chapter 10 | This chapter and the next twelve, will follow each other in very rapid succession, like travel machine gun bursts. At the beginning of 2000, following a chance encounter wit
Guillaume de Bassompierre
- May 29, 2020
- 2 min
Travel in music: Chapter 9 - 1999, South America (a road trip)
2020, the world is in confinement because of a corona virus. I have used this time to reminisce on my past through a musical blog series. They will take you through my peregrinations on this tiny, unique earth, in chronological order. Click on the song, use it as soundtrack, and enjoy! 1999 Chapter 9 | The next one is an itinerant chapter. Towards the end of my stay in Chile, I felt serious job fatigue. I had been working on the same project for three years and it was reachin
Guillaume de Bassompierre
- May 28, 2020
- 3 min
Travel in music: Chapter 8 - 1996-2000, Chile
2020, the world is in confinement because of a corona virus. I have used this time to reminisce on my past through a musical blog series. They will take you through my peregrinations on this tiny, unique earth, in chronological order. Click on the song, use it as soundtrack, and enjoy! 1996-2000 - Chapter 8 | Chile is a very, very dear chapter. I left intending to spend only 6 months in Santiago, for an internship that was part of my master’s degree. I ended up staying almost
Guillaume de Bassompierre
- May 27, 2020
- 3 min
Travel in music: Chapter 7 - 1990-95, Belgium (part IV)
2020, the world is in confinement because of a corona virus. I have used this time to reminisce on my past through a musical blog series. They will take you through my peregrinations on this tiny, unique earth, in chronological order. Click on the song, use it as soundtrack, and enjoy! 1990-1995 - Chapter 7 | I am at the height of adolescence when we move back to Belgium from Washington. I only have the last year of high school to complete. We left the US too soon, too unexpe
Guillaume de Bassompierre
- May 26, 2020
- 2 min
Travel in music: Chapter 6 - 1987-90, United States of America
2020, the world is in confinement because of a corona virus. I have used this time to reminisce on my past through a musical blog series. They will take you through my peregrinations on this tiny, unique earth, in chronological order. Click on the song, use it as soundtrack, and enjoy! 1987-1990 - Chapter 6 | I spent my teenage years in the United States of America's grand ol' capital, Washington DC. The only taste I had had of the US so far was a trip to Florida five years p
Guillaume de Bassompierre
- May 25, 2020
- 2 min
Travel in music: Chapter 5 - 1983-87, Belgium (part III)
2020, the world is in confinement because of a corona virus. I have used this time to reminisce on my past through a musical blog series. They will take you through my peregrinations on this tiny, unique earth, in chronological order. Click on the song, use it as soundtrack, and enjoy! 1983-1987 - Chapter 5 | Aged nine, after 4 years in Spain, I moved back to Belgium. In this period, I nurtured the first real memories of my home country, still in the small village of Tervuren
Guillaume de Bassompierre
- May 24, 2020
- 2 min
Travel in music: Chapter 4 - 1978-82, Spain
2020, the world is in confinement because of a corona virus. I have used this time to reminisce on my past through a musical blog series. They will take you through my peregrinations on this tiny, unique earth, in chronological order. Click on the song, use it as soundtrack, and enjoy! 1978-1982 - Chapter 4 | At the age of 5, I moved to Madrid with my family. Spain had just readopted democracy, after decades of isolation under Franco’s dictatorship. It was busy trying to join
Guillaume de Bassompierre
- May 23, 2020
- 3 min
Travel in music: Chapter 3 - 1976-78, Belgium (part II)
2020, the world is in confinement because of a corona virus. I have used this time to reminisce on my past through a musical blog series. They will take you through my peregrinations on this tiny, unique earth, in chronological order. Click on the song, use it as soundtrack, and enjoy! 1976-1978 - Chapter 3 | Back from Congo. We spend a 2-year stint in Belgium. We lived in a tiny house off the main square in the village of Tervuren, in the outskirts of Brussels' greater subur
Guillaume de Bassompierre
- May 22, 2020
- 2 min
Travel in music: Chapter 2 - 1973-76, D.R. Congo
2020, the world is in confinement because of a corona virus. I have used this time to reminisce on my past through a musical blog series. They will take you through my peregrinations on this tiny, unique earth, in chronological order. Click on the song, use it as soundtrack, and enjoy! 1973-1976 - Chapter 2 | I spent the first few years of my life in the D.R. Congo. My father was a young stagiaire-diplomat in the Belgian consulate in Lubumbashi, the 2nd biggest city of what w
