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The globe-trotting Belgian architect who calls Malaysia home
Born in Brussels in , Jean-Michel Gathy developed a wanderlust at an early age. “I have always been fascinated by maps,” he says.
“When I was seven, my mother would give me money for milk. But instead of buying milk, I saved it and bought maps. Atlases. At that time, there were countries in the world, and every week, I would study one – Liberia or Japan, for example – and learn everything about it: mountains, rivers, cities, wheat production, etc etc.
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And at the end of the week, I’d test myself.”
By the age of nine, Gathy was organising family holidays, planning routes around places of interest in Europe. “I had to do it well,” he says, “so as not to look stupid in front of my brother and sisters.”
As well as a zest for travel, Gathy had a flair for languages.
He learnt his near-fluent English during a year spent in Pennsylvania, adding it to a clutch of European languages – his native French and Dutch, plus Spanish a