ONE GOD, ONE LAND, one love
by Ton van der Kroon, travellog Sinai, october 2023 Two weeks after the world woke up in shock and horror on 7 October, Anne and I are travelling towards the Sinai desert. ‘Is it wise to go?” we ask ourselves.…
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TON: YOU SHALL NOT PASS
“You look like Gandalf,” a woman calls out as I walk out of the gate at Les Contes with walking stick and backpack. I’m going out into the mountains alone for two days. I am wearing gray pants and a…
TON: THE NEW JERUSALEM
While I am waiting for 1,5 hours in the airplane to fly back to Portugal – after two weeks in the Netherlands and Belgium – the stewardess announces: “Dear people, due to a broken air conditioner, we can’t take off…
AVATAR: A MIRROR FOR OUR TIME
If there is anything the Avatar films symbolise, it is the bond we as humanity have with planet Earth. Although the films are set on Pandora, this Greek name refers directly to our own planet. In ancient times, Pandora was…
The Matrix: how do we wake up from the dream world?
One of the most iconic movie scenes in recent decades is when Neo wakes up from the Matrix. He realises that he is in reality a battery living an artificial life in a digital reality. The world he lives in…