Europe Express: a Grand Tour Through Time

Journalist Dirk Leyman shares his colourful collection of tourist’s ‘concertina’ postcard booklets, highlighting their exquisite elegance and grandeur. Dirk Leyman became interested at a very young age in these peculiar accordion postcard albums, which every self-respecting tourist and souvenir hunter used to take home from their holiday. Dirk started to systematically collect them as time went by. The snapshots, which are folded in zig-zag fashion, are like relics of a long-gone era. Some a…