I must admit, initially I hated you. I hated you a lot because you reduced me to the small world of my house and garden in Ghent, Belgium. A social life that only revolves around the necessary visits to the supermarket, and that deprives me from seeing family, friends and colleagues, is utterly boring. No…
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Tweak the plan, not the goal
We hope you are at home and doing fine in these difficult times of lockdown and quarantaine. Today, things do not longer go according to plan. Countries are closing, cities and villages look empty. Many businesses are reaching a critical point. The good times seem far away. We could conclude: it is beyond our own…
My 7 reasons to love Italy
There are plenty of beautiful countries on the planet. True. Over the years, I have travelled the planet extensively. But still, each time I arrive in Italy, it feels like coming home. My fascination with Italy started in early childhood thanks to uncountable family trips to the Veneto, Lombardy, Tuscany and Le Marche. At that…
The eternal holiday appearance
Work to live. Don’t live to work. “You are on a holiday?” Maybe. I get this question regularly, even when I am close to being submerged… For some or other reason I regularly meet people who think I am on a holiday. In the beginning I thought it was because I am a woman, passing…