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Subject: [OM] Nathan's PAD 7/2/2013: back to the past
From: Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 21:13:10 +0100
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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