Last month my brother Frans made it to Down Under and despite our often daily email and WhatsApp contact, great to see each other in real life again!
It is not often that I walk around Wellington with another boinero, let alone one that sports a white beard and smokes a pipe (were a dying breed...).
Inseparable of his Merino d'Arles beret, he found himself another fashion icon in a Swanndri bush jacket - a New Zealand traditional (and perfect match for a beret).
Frans also took up the job of my other brother The Beret Spy; no easy task in this country, but he found a few (like pictured above).
Walking & talking, talking & walking, marked most of our days together, alternated with coffee and Belgian or NZ beers.
Three boineros together, Frans pictured here with my good friend Alan, luthier and maker of the finest string instruments in the southern hemisphere:
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