Still landing
I have absolutely no excuses. I came home to Valencia nearly two weeks ago and am still landing. If I wasn’t such an unpacking freak my...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jun 16
- 2 min
Desert dreaming
Outside the city is taking a long tropical shower. Like a voyeur I’m sipping my coffee inside, all fluffy in my peignoir. Windows open...
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Joke De Roeck
- Mar 16
- 2 min
Belgian holidays
Hello wide awake heart beating to the rhythm of caffeine! It’s evening and I’m dipping speculaas (I refuse to call it biscoff) in my...
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Joke De Roeck
- Oct 24, 2023
- 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
- 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
- Sep 15, 2022
- 2 min
The Letter
Today I received a letter. Nothing special, you might think. Well, think again baby, because this letter is literally a blast from the...
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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 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
- 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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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
- Apr 28, 2021
- 2 min
Enchanted holiday
So we went on an enchanted holiday. Magical as time tricked us into believing we went somewhere far and foreign for a week or two. In...
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Joke De Roeck
- Dec 7, 2020
- 2 min
Ten years of travelling
I started travelling when I was 19, working in Greece for the summer. Then off to Spain to study, Nepal for an internship and that was...
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Joke De Roeck
- Mar 5, 2020
- 2 min
Festivals, frolics and other frivolities
Holy moly! Again, nearly a month has passed since I flipped open my laptop and wrote a good ol’ blog post. I’ve been all over the place...
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Joke De Roeck
- Feb 15, 2020
- 2 min
Blissland
Dude. I’ve been neglecting my blog, journals and notebooks for a month now. One month of living in absolute blissland named Kiwiburn and...
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Joke De Roeck
- Nov 18, 2018
- 2 min
Le Guess Who?
What just happened? Since I work full time (how do people do this their entire lives??) my tiny two day weekends are holy as the pope...
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Joke De Roeck
- Sep 7, 2018
- 2 min
Growing roots
When days start off grey, I can’t help but feel mellow. Wearing nostalgia like a warm woollen sweater wherever I go. These days make me...
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Joke De Roeck
- Sep 5, 2018
- 1 min
Feeërieën
With the end of summer, my favourite Brussels festival comes around. Hidden in the dark of the beautiful Royal Park is a stage adorned in...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jul 19, 2018
- 2 min
Festivalling like a teenager
I find it so wonderfully easy to live at festivals. I’ve been doing it for nearly fifteen years, so I found the hacks and blended my own...
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Joke De Roeck
- Jul 17, 2018
- 2 min
Tank it up
Two weeks ago I saw a concert that moved my heart outside of my body. Music, poetry, theatre doing things to me I couldn’t quite handle....
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