The 5 euro massage
You know when life just rolls on and you wonder what the hell you’re going to write about on your blog because, well... routine? Then...
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Joke De Roeck
- Nov 13
- 1 min
The need for softness
The need for poetry is greater than ever. I find crevices in words I want to escape in only to make sense of things. Never before did I...
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Joke De Roeck
- Oct 24
- 3 min
Autumn arrival
Last week was a funny one. The best way to explain the realm I was moving in is: jetlagged or in limbo between dream and reality,...
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Joke De Roeck
- Oct 7
- 2 min
Transformation
The first week of October lasted about a flutter of the eyelashes. So did the entire month of September. I guess that’s what it feels...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jun 25
- 2 min
All the feels
Hola! I know, it’s been a while... Again. I feel like I’m moving further away from the longing to write digital updates, more and more...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jun 11
- 2 min
Camino + Clue
My cycle app does this new thing I’m not a fan of. As soon as I click open the app, all of a sudden it states in big red letters: "Your...
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Joke De Roeck
- Apr 25
- 2 min
Early bird (for once)
I don’t know if it was the mosquito or my anxiety waking me up before 6. I pushed my earplugs deeper in my earholes but the mozzie was so...
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Joke De Roeck
- Apr 20
- 2 min
Spring time juice
Spring has sprung, baby! Well, Valencia is more in a summer mood but I'm talking the start of something... Fresh! The city is drenched in...
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Joke De Roeck
- Apr 10
- 2 min
Homegirl
I am slowly turning into a little house witch. Living in one place, no crazy big stories to tell. In case you were wondering why it has...
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Joke De Roeck
- Feb 18
- 2 min
One year in Spain
Valencia! It’s been one year of living in you. You, glorious place made of dreams. Where scents of paella ambush your nostrils from every...
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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 16
- 2 min
Blue Monday Magic
If - like me - you are one of those nostalgic souls who easily catch a bad case of the winter blues, today could be especially gloomy....
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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 11, 2022
- 2 min
Inner winter in winter
It’s been a week. Inner winter in winter, let’s go. Full moon rising over the ocean, pumping myself full of vitamins as everybody around...
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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
- Oct 20, 2022
- 2 min
Blood on the dance floor
When you’re all out of chocolate but Young Fathers' Cocoa Sugar is blasting through the living room and the windows vibrate and the...
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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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