• wellness

    No soda challenge with Waterdrop

    No this is no fancy cocktail and actually, it is ordinary water, just with some flavor. At the beginning of July, I started seeing these advertisements for waterdrop® (https://en.waterdrop.com/pages/what-is-waterdrop) everywhere on my social media. I was slacking a bit in the water drinking department and barely got 1 liter in at that time and was upping the rest of my fluid intake with about the same amount of Cola Zero. So the advertising did its job and I purchased a big 1l steel bottle, a 600ml steel bottle, and the starter set with 6 “cold” flavors. Even before they arrived I placed a second order with another 500ml steel bottle…

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  • Travel

    Birthday weekend 2021

    In less than 6 months there is another set of candles to blow out on a new birthday cake, so it is about time I take you back to this year’s birthday. That it was going to be again a birthday celebrated in Belgium was already a given as non-essential travel was not allowed until after Easter because of Covid. However, as the numbers were getting higher again it remained still to be seen if it would be a stay-at-home one or if I could make a weekend out of it. The weather forecast was also a typical one for the time of year with March showers. So while I…

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  • Reading

    Book recommendations: Burning for the bravest

    I was planning on posting this blog post down the line, but seeing as the books I want to recommend are on sale this weekend (Amazon UK & US only) I would like to steer you in the direction of Kaye Kennedy and her “Burning for the bravest” series.The first book of the series came out over a year ago and the third book had its 1-year book birthday yesterday. So some details of those books may be already quite hazy in my memory. In total there are 8 books, 7 in the series and 1 stand-alone Christmas novel.I picked up the first one because it had nice artwork and…

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