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Tableland wonders
Hooray for the Tablelands! A magnificent slice of Queensland where every waterfall, lake and flower is more amazing than the last one....
Joke De Roeck
Jul 28, 20131 min read


Joke De Roeck
Jul 21, 20130 min read


Brownsville
While travelling I'm constantly amazed by all the helping hands people offer me. Every person who has given me a lift, cooked up a feast,...
Joke De Roeck
Jul 15, 20131 min read


Happy Daze
Do you ever get that feeling you are meant to go somewhere because great things are about to happen? You can't argue with that voice...
Joke De Roeck
Jul 11, 20131 min read


Thanksgiving
I'm going to be brutally honest with you. Mom and dad close your eyes for a second and ignore the next sentence. I never want to leave...
Joke De Roeck
Jun 18, 20131 min read


Life on a boat
If you read this blog every now and then, you must have noticed something. Life in Australia is pretty good. Bloody fucking amazing to be...
Joke De Roeck
Jun 14, 20131 min read


Pretty prince of parties
If every town in Australia was a person, Airlie Beach would be the Prince of Parties. Something like this: http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v...
Joke De Roeck
May 31, 20131 min read


Living in a rainforest
At Wintermoon I met the amazing Darlene who invited me to stay at her house for a while to relax and take a break from travelling around....
Joke De Roeck
May 28, 20131 min read


Wintermoon
If the first of May represents a new beginning, this must have been the start of my all-dance-no-sleep life in Australia. Again. It's...
Joke De Roeck
May 25, 20131 min read


The hard life
From island to rainforest to farm to highway to waterfall to city to festival to the middle of nowhere. And when it all gets too much: to...
Joke De Roeck
May 23, 20131 min read


Fraser Island, baby!
I try to live an Aussie life and see everything I want to see without going on any tours. Time schedules make me itchy and following 30...
Joke De Roeck
May 19, 20132 min read


Music for hippies
Another weekend, another festival. I could get used to this Aussie lifestyle. I rocked up at the Maleny Music Weekend and asked if they...
Joke De Roeck
May 16, 20131 min read


A thousand lives
When I was 13 I got myself a head full of dreadlocks. I used to go on shopping trips to Brussels where I spent all my pocket money on...
Joke De Roeck
May 14, 20132 min read


Road tip to Noosa
After Gemma and I got married in his garden, Rainer took me and his yellow van on a road trip to Noosa. A honeymoon without my wife....
Joke De Roeck
May 12, 20131 min read


Travelling with a wedding dress
I bought a wedding dress on a festival. All I needed was a bearded/mustached/music playing person to call the love of my life and marry....
Joke De Roeck
May 1, 20131 min read


Brisbane street art
Because grey cities need colour like I need a bearded man.
Joke De Roeck
Apr 27, 20131 min read


Brisvegas
Welcome to an urban jungle called Brisbane, Brissy for the locals and Brisvegas for the tourists. A place so grey it satisfies my love...
Joke De Roeck
Apr 25, 20131 min read


The love van
If life is one big trip, the Aussie life is one hell of a road trip. I must be the only person who ever arrived in this country without a...
Joke De Roeck
Apr 23, 20131 min read


Big spender
Foodies and friends of the chocolate addicts community ahoy! Welcome to the Byron Bay market, where sushi rolls scream your name and...
Joke De Roeck
Apr 19, 20131 min read


Gooning about
Whenever I felt a bit overwhelmed by the amount of beards at Bluesfest, I would run to the Gourmet Goons for my daily dose of magnificent...
Joke De Roeck
Apr 14, 20131 min read
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