AND BEETLES CRAWLING OVER YOU - Chapter 2
Lunch at the Tripostal and I was very happy to drink down a hot soup. It was needed as the wind was still blowing outside. Lille is a strange city. The old town is central - of course - but you seem to go around the centre to visit other parts. Logical but I have never worked out the transport system so end up walking everywhere. I was off to the Beaux Arts. In weather like this museums are very welcome. "A Tribute to Hieronymus Bosch in Congo" Looking down at the exhibition A strange relationship. I am reading Philipp Blom’s »The Vertigo Years » with a chapter and a long one, dedicated to the Congo situation with King Leopold. Some ten million people were killed in the Congo Free State, his personal fiefdom. The title of the exhibition had aroused my attention for several reasons...