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
- 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
- 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
- Jun 14, 2022
- 2 min
Full moon brain stew
I’ve been wanting to write about my visit to Belgium since coming back home to Valencia a week ago. But I couldn’t. Because this heatwave...
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Joke De Roeck
- May 30, 2022
- 2 min
Core festival: hasta nunca baby
Core Festival. What the hell are you? Not the love child of Rock Werchter and Tomorrowland, as we all expected. Maybe the morning after...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jan 23, 2022
- 2 min
Halfway
Can you believe I’m already halfway through my Belgian journey? Yes, you read it right: I’m not here to stay. That was never the plan. I...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jan 17, 2022
- 2 min
Freddie Mercury retrograde
Do you feel it too? How the world is turning, making my head spin, waking me up with a migraine and a hangover the size of a planet...
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Joke De Roeck
- Dec 28, 2021
- 2 min
Merry covid and a happy Bon Jovi!
Nothing says 'welcome to Belgium' more than getting covid two weeks after arriving. Seriously, how do people do it, living here and not...
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Joke De Roeck
- Dec 16, 2021
- 2 min
The concept of home
What is home? Is something I’ve been asking myself and others for as long as I can remember. Flying back to Belgium is like coming home....
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