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Joke De Roeck
Jul 3, 20142 min read
Yoghurt overdose in Bhaktapur
Many people rave about Bhaktapur, home of beautiful buildings and cheese cake flavoured yoghurt. We heard millions of great things about...
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Joke De Roeck
Jun 19, 20143 min read
Meditation: dancing, shaking, jumping, shouting
Just another day at Osho Tapoban: 7 - 8 am: yoga while yawning like a lion and rubbing the sleep out of my eyes 8 - 9 am: dynamic...
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Joke De Roeck
Jun 16, 20142 min read
Another meditating hippie in Nepal
"I have been here before", is the first thought that comes to mind as I arrive at Osho Tapoban, an ashram in Kathmandu where I am about...
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Joke De Roeck
Jun 6, 20142 min read
Dancing in thermals
There were only two things that could kick us out of Bandipur. If it weren't for the flight home of our friend Max and Ambient Valley...
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Joke De Roeck
Jun 4, 20142 min read
Bandipur paradise
Oh sweet sweet Bandipur, you slice of paradise! After stinking hot Chitwan we were just happy to go somewhere a bit cooler. Anywhere....
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Joke De Roeck
Jun 2, 20141 min read
Nepalese street meat
Please sir can I have a piece of that chicken I asked fingerlicking pointing at the meat in the window seat he smiled sly slapped away...
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Joke De Roeck
May 28, 20141 min read
The rhino chase
Chitwan. Finally we meet. Not a place for the faint hearted. There is no escaping the 45 degrees afternoons, the guaranteed smell of your...
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Joke De Roeck
May 25, 20141 min read
Chilling out in Pokhara part 265
After our little Panchase trek we took a couple of days off any activities involving effort. The best place to do exactly that and...
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Joke De Roeck
May 25, 20142 min read
Trekking like real trekkers
A couple of weeks ago Dean and I decided to do the exact same thing as millions of other travellers in Nepal. We went trekking! Not the...
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Joke De Roeck
May 15, 20141 min read
From Pokhara, with love
On our last day in Pokhara we got one hell of a view with our morning coffee. Best goodbye present! Tomorrow we'll raft our way to...
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Joke De Roeck
May 10, 20141 min read
How to get stuck in Pokhara
Pokhara, you are being so good to us. We didn't choose the best season to visit this beautiful place, as the rain is starting to pour...
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Joke De Roeck
May 4, 20141 min read
O momo, I love you so
Momo making got my legs shaking who would have known kneeding dough would be so therapeutic you may think I'm a lunatic but I promise...
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Joke De Roeck
May 1, 20142 min read
We have a home!
I've been travelling like a snail for a while now; slow, sticky and with my home on my back. The urge to put the backpack down lead to...
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Joke De Roeck
Apr 23, 20142 min read
Colour madness
In Pokhara I learned that the Nepalese love to celebrate the start of the new year by running. Good resolutions, I guess. Well, it worked...
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Joke De Roeck
Apr 22, 20141 min read
Running for the new year
While Belgian friends are bragging about the amount of easter eggs they found in the garden, I'm still busy celebrating Nepalese new...
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Joke De Roeck
Apr 20, 20142 min read
Organic farming in the mountains
We decided to take a holiday from the Kathmandu chaos and disappeared in the Nepalese mountains for a couple of days. We met the amazing...
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Joke De Roeck
Apr 12, 20142 min read
Home sweet Nepal
It starts as soon as you land in Kathmandu and walk out of the airport. The combination of freshly steamed momos and freshly polluted...
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Joke De Roeck
Apr 6, 20141 min read
My love for FNQ
Far North Queensland, you did it again. You spoiled us like little brats. Every creek is a piece of paradise, the forests are never...
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Joke De Roeck
Mar 29, 20142 min read
Memory Lane
There are days you wake up, grab the whiskey from your bedside table and turn every coffee into an Irish one. I call those my thinking...
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