Melbourne days
Sweet sweet Melbourne, You have been great. I feel fueled up, running on nothing but love. Days and nights were filled with...
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Joke De Roeck
Mar 18, 20161 min read
River coffee morning walk of the mind
Sitting by the Yarra river soaking up the last rays of Melbourne sun. Cat Power is playing while I close my eyes. Warm hands around the...
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Joke De Roeck
Feb 7, 20161 min read
St Kilda wanders
This takes me back to where it all started three years ago french toast bacon brekky in a Melbourne cafe walking around St Kilda...
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Joke De Roeck
Feb 5, 20161 min read
Rainbows after rainbow
Being back in the city has been good. A bit confusing over what to wear and how to act, but good. Melbourne is a big playground anyway,...
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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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Joke De Roeck
Feb 22, 20142 min read
Wedding anniversary
Do you remember my wedding with my first wife Gemma last year? When I was still blond and fat and new to the whole wedding thing? We had...
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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
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
Jan 18, 20131 min read
Goodbye brekkie
We couldn't leave Melbourne without a big goodbye brekkie, so we headed for The Red Tongue on Brunswick street for some good old loving...
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Joke De Roeck
Jan 14, 20132 min read
Love letter to Melbourne
Dear Melbourne, Thanks for treating me like the daughter you never had. You've been good to me. Sorry I acted like a sixteen year old...
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Joke De Roeck
Jan 11, 20131 min read
Colour the streets
Some get creative with hair, others paint the streets of Melbourne. A city stops feeling blue and turning grey when artists can go crazy...
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Joke De Roeck
Jan 8, 20131 min read
Fun with scissors
And paint. I'm a blondie now! Hello new awesome blonde life!
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Joke De Roeck
Jan 7, 20131 min read
A love affair: mister postman
This one is about my love for snail mail. And the huge smile on my face as mister postman parked his bike at the door, rang the bell,...
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Joke De Roeck
Jan 4, 20131 min read
Low life
In Flemish, 'Melbourne' means party. Every night we have the famous Saturday Night Fever and every day feels like another lazy Sunday....
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Joke De Roeck
Dec 28, 20122 min read
Christmas craze
While Aussies are going nuts for Christmas, I'm still not feeling the jingle bell vibe.The sun is shining, temperatures climbed to 40...
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Joke De Roeck
Dec 20, 20121 min read
Home sweet Melbourne
On our first day in Melbourne we fell in love with the city and decided to stay here for a while. The second day we found a lovely crazy...
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