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Peignoir season
I’m wearing my peignoir so it’s official: autumn has arrived in Valencia. Not for long though, tomorrow calls for beach time again with...
Joke De Roeck
Sep 22, 20242 min read
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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...
Joke De Roeck
Sep 12, 20243 min read
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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...
Joke De Roeck
Jun 16, 20242 min read
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Beachy poetry
On this sweet June day, a poem inspired by my recent trip to Lanzarote. Famara Skin crisp as that time we drove down winding roads...
Joke De Roeck
Jun 6, 20241 min read
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Island magic
Lanzarote contains a certain magic that was so easy to grasp while roaming the island, yet the words evaporate from my pen as soon as I...
Joke De Roeck
May 26, 20243 min read
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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...
Joke De Roeck
Jun 11, 20232 min read
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Adventure time
The Camino Primitivo? You? It’s hard, really hard! I don’t think you’ll make it. I hope you are prepared. It’s so hard! Are you sure...
Joke De Roeck
May 7, 20232 min read
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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...
Joke De Roeck
Apr 25, 20232 min read
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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...
Joke De Roeck
Apr 20, 20232 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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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...
Joke De Roeck
Nov 27, 20222 min read
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Ibiza dreaming
Certain things run through your life like a red thread. Connecting dots of past, present and future in a way you never thought possible....
Joke De Roeck
Sep 11, 20222 min read
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French mémoires
I'm a Memory Lane kinda girl and I love nothing more than to browse through old journals. I recently found this gem of a scribbling I...
Joke De Roeck
Aug 29, 20223 min read
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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...
Joke De Roeck
Jul 17, 20223 min read
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Period Power
About a month ago I gifted myself an online workshop by the fabulous Jenny Keane named Period Power. I’ve been bleeding for twenty years...
Joke De Roeck
May 20, 20223 min read
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Wild woman
She is a wild one No body knows Where nature ends and She starts Petals unfolding into A hurricane Skin shimmering in the moonlight Soft...
Joke De Roeck
May 2, 20221 min read
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Disco hiking
After weeks of vacationing in the sunny rays of Valencian deliciousness, it was time for something a little different. I had been...
Joke De Roeck
Mar 16, 20222 min read
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Saturdays
Saturdays like Saturdays should be clouds of rain linger turn the garden into mist where the ocean used to be is a long queue of fog, one...
Joke De Roeck
Jan 29, 20221 min read
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Chez Jay dreaminess
After the retreat I soaked in a warm bath of friendship and saying YES to every possible event happening in this fresh start of NZ...
Joke De Roeck
Nov 22, 20212 min read
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