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December craze and happy holidays
Oh boy oh boy it’s been a month! A deliciously good one, cold, cosy and confusing. Filled with friends and smiles and lots of snippets of...
Joke De Roeck
Dec 22, 20242 min read
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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...
Joke De Roeck
Mar 9, 20233 min read
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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....
Joke De Roeck
Jan 16, 20232 min read
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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...
Joke De Roeck
Jan 10, 20232 min read
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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...
Joke De Roeck
Dec 11, 20222 min read
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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...
Joke De Roeck
Dec 3, 20222 min read
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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...
Joke De Roeck
Jan 17, 20222 min read
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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...
Joke De Roeck
Dec 28, 20212 min read
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Celebration upon celebration
Oooh baby! All the goods, all the time! That’s my state of mind and heart ever since I left the night shift side of life. Celebration...
Joke De Roeck
Jul 7, 20213 min read
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Winter time granny time
You know winter is on its way when: You don’t mind working nightshifts, so you miss the coldest part of the night and you can sleep right...
Joke De Roeck
Jun 15, 20211 min read
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