Patrick lives and works in Brussels, Belgium, his day job dedicated to protecting the environment, his spare time to writing fiction, poetry and art reviews. He grew up in Germany, Australia, Japan and England, and studied Physics and Philosophy in the UK, French language and civilization in France and Mexican literature of the 20th century in Mexico. His short stories have appeared in Coffin Bell, Night Picnic Press, Beyond Words, The Brussels Review, and in 101 Words. His poetry collection, Urban Enigmas, will come out as a chapbook in 2025, produced by Dipity Press.
Anyone who has been to the Baie de Somme in Picardie, France, will remember the astonishing sunsets, different every night. They will also remember the tidal […]
Over 245 museums and cultural hubs across Belgium have grouped together to offer a museum pass that gives visitors year round unlimited entry for a one-off […]
The City of Las Vegas has revealed the plans for its newest art project. The Las Vegas Museum of Art is scheduled to open in 2028 and will be designed […]
Belgium will this weekend mark the 80th anniversary of its liberation in the Second World War with several events, including in Ypres, the town forever associated with […]
The Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations, located in Marseille, also known as Mucem, is currently hosting an exhibition about naturism entitled ‘Naturist paradises’. The exhibition, […]
This year’s Olympic Games, hosted by Paris, have been haunted by controversies. From preparations starting last year to clean up the Seine for the swimming competitions […]
The passport may soon become a “pastport”, a thing of bygone days, with the advent of digitally-stored data and facial recognition technology giving us the chance […]
I’ve recently begun the Promenade Verte, a 60 km trail around the outskirts of Brussels, taking in lovingly-tended guerrilla allotments and sneak previews of the old […]
You may have already seen the famous blue stone of Tournai, Belgium, without realising it. Alongside textiles, it is an export the city is famous for, […]
Even though Plato, who first wrote down the story of Atlantis, died almost 2,500 years ago, his story has been told and retold ever since. The myth […]
A recent study has reignited the longstanding debate about how the ancient Egyptians constructed the iconic pyramids, suggesting that hydraulic technology might have played a pivotal […]
No trip to London is arguably complete without a visit to the National Portrait Gallery and its Portrait Award, relaunched the Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award 2024. This is the […]
After Liverpool’s waterfront was delisted as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2021, it is now the all-time British classic of the Tower of London, of which the earliest […]
Time travel is still travel, right? 1. Back to the Future (1985) Is Back to the Future the ultimate commercial time travel movie? Very possibly. Forget […]