Holidays in the rain
When you live in Spain but your friends and fam live in Belgium, automatically your holidays will be spent… In Belgium. I know February...
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Joke De Roeck
- Feb 6
- 3 min
That time our cacao got spiked at ecstatic dance
It was an innocent plan, to go to an ecstatic dance on a Saturday night. We had been a few times before and it’s always a great idea of a...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jan 27
- 2 min
Travel memories and faraway friends
This week I had a drink with a friend I met exactly three years ago in New Zealand, at a festival called Kiwiburn that changed my life...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jan 10
- 2 min
My treasure chest
For nearly ten years we’ve been following this tradition now, my Brussels friends and I. We rent a house somewhere in the south of...
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Joke De Roeck
- Dec 30, 2022
- 3 min
2022 Reflections
‘Twas the night before Christmas, or not really. More like the night before my flight to Belgium where I instantly turned into a snow...
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Joke De Roeck
- Dec 3, 2022
- 2 min
New Zealand memories
If you know me a little bit or if you’ve been reading these posts sometime over the past ten years, you have probably figured out I’m a...
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Joke De Roeck
- Nov 27, 2022
- 2 min
A dreamy recollection
It’s been a while, I know I know. I’ve been hiding in the mountains for the past few weeks. Somewhere near Granada, in a tiny town called...
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Joke De Roeck
- Nov 7, 2022
- 3 min
A festival and a wedding: PART 2
The wedding After the funtastic festival that left me buzzing with delight, it was time to get back home to Valencia and scrub up for the...
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Joke De Roeck
- Nov 2, 2022
- 2 min
A festival and a wedding: PART 1
The first days of November are to remember those who have passed on to other realms and to reflect on death. I decided to do this by...
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Joke De Roeck
- Oct 24, 2022
- 2 min
To the Queen of Sass
No way. I just lit a candle – I still can’t light a candle without thinking of you and where you and your contagious flame might be...
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Joke De Roeck
- Oct 16, 2022
- 2 min
Floating days and Death Cafes
It’s been a week of floating on fuzzy clouds, so high up hardly ever coming down. In the midst of poetry and friends warming my heart,...
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Joke De Roeck
- Oct 9, 2022
- 2 min
High on adrenaline and poetry
It’s been three days and my heart is still beating in fireworks. Thursday night I organised an evening of poetry and storytelling where I...
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Joke De Roeck
- Sep 11, 2022
- 2 min
Ibiza dreaming
Certain things run through your life like a red thread. Connecting dots of past, present and future in a way you never thought possible....
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Joke De Roeck
- Aug 23, 2022
- 2 min
The Valencian Void
How did we survive the days after summer camp when we were little? Did we indulge in milk and cookies and watch cartoons until we fell...
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Joke De Roeck
- Aug 9, 2022
- 1 min
Nocturnes
Oh how the night changes life as we know it people are less aware shame vanishes, embarrassment is nonexistent dancing is the new...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jul 28, 2022
- 2 min
Daily stardust
Is the festival dust still settling? Am I seeing the world through kaleidoscopic glasses? Am I falling in love with Valencia more and...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jul 17, 2022
- 3 min
Back from Nowhere
As soon as I knew I was moving to Spain, I had one mission in mind: to go to Nowhere. Even though this festival has been on my burning...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jul 3, 2022
- 2 min
Finishing things
I am a forever procrastinator, always living high up in the clouds and never ever finishing a thing. My therapist once suggested: just...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jun 26, 2022
- 2 min
Sunday eve setup
Welcome to my Sunday eve setup. White wine fresh raspberries a house smelling of brownies chocolate everywhere. Fueled up on the same...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jun 18, 2022
- 2 min
Poetic nerves
Last week I did something that scared me. It still makes me nervous thinking about it and it has been making me nervous for many years....
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