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Joke De Roeck
Apr 7, 20133 min read
A big chunk of blues
I spent months counting the days until easter weekend for exactly 92 reasons. Two of which are Paul Simon and Manu Chao. Because the...
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Joke De Roeck
Apr 6, 20131 min read
Pre-bluesfest energy overload
The only way to get rid of it: waking up before sunrise and trying hard to stand up on a surfboard. I broke my own record with 1.5 seconds.
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Joke De Roeck
Apr 5, 20131 min read
Happy hippies
After a week of Melbourne I longed for less grey buildings and more ocean. During the flight to Byron I transformed from concrete loving...
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Joke De Roeck
Mar 26, 20132 min read
Melbourne: part 3
For the third time in three months, I found myself wandering around the small alleyways of my beloved Melbourne. The city girl part of me...
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Joke De Roeck
Mar 25, 20131 min read
Vintage shops and climbing rocks
After a week of wearing mustaches, working and dancing in Adelaide, it was time for me to get on the move again. My feet got itchy but my...
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Joke De Roeck
Mar 22, 20131 min read
Mustache fest
There are three things in life I can never get enough of: music festivals, great food and facial hair. When all of that comes together,...
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Joke De Roeck
Mar 19, 20131 min read
Adelaide Fringe Festival
Ahhh the Fringe Festival! A place where bearded women, dressed up dwarfs and bendy circus artists gather. And when freaks come together...
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Joke De Roeck
Mar 17, 20132 min read
Crazy Sunday
When did Sundays stop being lazy and become awesome instead? Exactly, when you're travelling and have no idea what day it is so you and...
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Joke De Roeck
Mar 15, 20131 min read
Living on a vineyard
It all started with grape picking on Kangaroo Island. No, the story really begins in Melbourne. The city that ate a large chunk of my...
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Joke De Roeck
Mar 12, 20131 min read
Twelve Apostles
Like most tourists, I'm a sucker for stunning views, breathtaking landscapes and road trips. So the Great Ocean Road was a delight....
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Joke De Roeck
Mar 11, 20132 min read
Treasure Island
I never want to wake up from this dream life. It's getting hard to remember what it's like to have responsibilities. Or an alarm clock,...
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Joke De Roeck
Mar 10, 20131 min read
Best day of my life
I met a koala and all I wanted to do is buy him a little tutu and carry him around like a hairy baby.
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Joke De Roeck
Mar 8, 20131 min read
Beaching
Most people make a one or two day road trip to see the Great Ocean Road. Because we are a bit different in an extremely funky but slow...
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Joke De Roeck
Feb 28, 20131 min read
Living in a forest
Sometimes you will find yourself living in a tent in the middle of a forest and that's alright. You might want to spend all day (every...
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Joke De Roeck
Feb 21, 20131 min read
Riding waves like a machine
Yes, I'm officially Australian because I SURF. In my own very special elegant way. By acting like the surfboard is actually a bodyboard...
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Joke De Roeck
Feb 19, 20131 min read
Sweet madness
The story takes place in Melbourne. After days of festivals, bumping into the funky Yeasayer guys, free concerts, meeting awesome people,...
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Joke De Roeck
Feb 15, 20131 min read
Yeasayer! Yeasayer! Yeasayer!
In even more Yeasayer related news because Yeasayer is all that exists on Planet Earth: I met them. In a bar. I talked to them, not like...
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Joke De Roeck
Feb 14, 20132 min read
Laneway Festival
Also known as the day I danced my ass off. Melbourne decided to turn up the heat and make people boogie in skirts and shorts. The party...
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Joke De Roeck
Feb 8, 20131 min read
A life of luxury
After three weeks of hitchhiking, free food and sleeping on couches and squeeky bunk beds, it was hard saying no to a double bed and a...
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Joke De Roeck
Feb 6, 20131 min read
Hiking like a real hiker: Cradle Mountain
A tour bus picked me up from the side of the road in Burnie and drove me to Cradle Mountain. Happy as a little chicklet I posed with...
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