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....
Guillaume de Bassompierre
May 25, 20202 min read
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....
Guillaume de Bassompierre
May 24, 20202 min read
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....
Guillaume de Bassompierre
May 23, 20203 min read
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....
Guillaume de Bassompierre
May 22, 20202 min read
Travel in music: Chapter 1 - 1973, Belgium
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....
Guillaume de Bassompierre
May 21, 20201 min read
Boys day adventure in cosmonautics
As a pre-teen living in Washington D.C., I had loved the frequent trips to the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum with my dad. We went almost...
Guillaume de Bassompierre
Aug 5, 20173 min read
From Zoology to History
The boys diligently followed us through the endless galleries of the Hermitage yesterday, even though the art on display did not thrill...
Guillaume de Bassompierre
Aug 2, 20174 min read
"Not another museum, mom"
Just when the boys thought we could simply not visit another museum, we woke up on day four and told them we would be visiting the...
Leanne de Bassompierre
Aug 1, 20172 min read
Picture-perfect Petersburg tourists
After yesterday’s seven hour-long hike through the city, we opted for a lazier mode of exploration. We took the metro again to Saint...
Guillaume de Bassompierre
Jul 30, 20175 min read
Baring our soles on St. Petersburg streets
The three-hour time zone and 24-hour journey from Abidjan to Saint Petersburg meant we all slept in a bit (9am in parenting terms is...
Leanne de Bassompierre
Jul 30, 20173 min read
From Russia With Love
I have waited months to be able to use the Bond cliché and now that I can, I will have to find the will power to not give every blog post...
Leanne de Bassompierre
Jul 28, 20174 min read
Catching up with fate in Gauteng
It has been a topsy-turvy week in Johannesburg. We pulled in to the Melville house of our Capetonian buddies, Shaheen, Dominique, Dean...
Guillaume de Bassompierre
Oct 13, 20166 min read
