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Trip to London
I was indecisive about what to do for my birthday, so except for some gifts I purchased for myself (maybe I expand on them later), I just stayed at home and had some cake with the family a couple of days later. However, I still felt not myself and had to get out of the house for a weekend instead of just sleeping all day. Hence I booked a weekend away to London, a month later, and a day shorter than I had originally planned. This time the plane fare was less than going by train. Friday morning I still worked half a day and because of actions from public…
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Trip to Paris
Despite my love for planners and stationery, I failed to plan for this week’s blog that I wanted to dedicate to Remembrance (Sun)day. Well, I did watch “In Vlaamse Velden” on Netflix. It is a series from a couple of years ago that I hadn’t seen when it aired on TV and that follows the lives of a doctor’s family during World War I. So if this blog isn’t about Remembrance day, let me tell you about my trip to Paris from a little over a month ago. This trip already started with some anxiety as the hotel I was supposed to stay at sent me an email two days…
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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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Welcome back!
Welcome back to my blog everyone. I wanted to get back on track with this blog at different moments in time but didn’t feel I had enough material to keep it going after the one idea was put out there.I wrote this blog over a week ago so on top of finding ideas I also need to keep myself accountable to post them. Hence the publishing schedule may seem a bit random at times, while I figure out a rhythm for my posts. Let’s catch up on what you all missed from my life in 2020. This isn’t much as the longer I’m working from home and limiting my social…
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A day at the beach
While in my last post I was eagerly awaiting the day I could put my toes in the sand, this day came earlier than expected. In Belgium every local government of a beachtown has its own rules on how they battle COVID-19: https://www.belgiancoast.co.uk/en/inspiration/measures-did-your-favourite-seaside-town-put-place. However the Dutch coast is in travel time for me a bit closer. Also their numbers for corona illnesses and deaths are better than ours (not sure if we overestimated and they did less testing). But while information panels on the side of the road still advise to not make unnecessary trips, their non-essential shops never closed. This made me think that a visit there would be…
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Walking Goals
At the beginning of this year I set different exercise goals on my list to accomplish in 2020. One of them was to walk 1010 miles. You maybe ask: “How did you arrive at that number?”. Well 2020 miles sounded a bit to overwhelming and not really feasible. Hence I just divided in 2 and that comes down to about 3 miles a day. So something that should be doable. I only occasionally reach 10 000 steps a day, but on a regular work day with going to/from the car park both when leaving home and going to work I average about 6500 steps. With the occasional hike in the…
