The Vesdre flows from near the German border to Liège, where it joins the Ourthe shortly before it flows into the Meuse, forming the natural border between the…
Roubaix, France, 2013-12-07 Part of the Lille agglomeration and near the Belgian border, Roubaix is a post-industrial town of about a 100.000. I went there for the Braderie…
Brussels was probably one of the places that initially triggered my interest in cities and architecture, as I regularly visited my grandfather there throughout my childhood and adolescence….
The rapidly changing area around the Brussels-Charleroi Canal in the neighbourhoods to the north of the centre of Brussels. The area was full of derelict buildings when I…
Viroinval, in the south of the Belgian province of Namur, has to be one of the most picturesque corners of the Ardennes. I took these pictures over the…
Lier (pop.: +/- 32.000), Province of Antwerp, Belgium. I had to wait an hour for my connection, so I thought I’d have a look around. It was definately…
Mukachevo, Transcarpathian Oblast, Ukraine, a town of about 85,000 near the borders with Slovakia, Hungary and Romania that has been part of all three countries in the past….
At about than 100 kilometers*, the central Ukrainian steel town of Krivoy Rog (UA: Krivyi Rih, pop.: +/- 650.000) is one of the longest towns in the world…