Cupcakes, friends and good times!!!!

Amélie, Nathalie’s daughter and my godchild, had her first birthday!!! To celebrate, we gave ourselves a treat by going to Plopsaland, an attraction park at the coast….

We had a good time making the cupcakes and had fun as little children!!! The Anubis accelerates from 0 to 90 km an hour in two seconds!! And makes seven loops in forty seconds!!!

WOW the fun and thrill!! Thanks all!!!

PS: I loved the interior decoration of Maya Land so much!!! I would love to live in a house like the big tree trunk with beautiful windows, giant mushrooms and flowers!!!

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Lilies, misty mornings and beautiful sunsets….

I had lilies in my home!! For one night only, because it is extremely risky to have a big vase in a mobile home!! Aäron had a beautiful exhibition in Brussels, I was so happy to see some old friends! Thanks guys!!!

I got good news of deep friends and souls who are pregnant!!! Congrats, my dears!!! Welcome on this earth new lightbringers!!!

The meadows are beautiful if the sun is low…. Dusk and dawn can be such gracious moments….

The picture of the open bridges shows a lot of my mood on the road: chill… Have a musli if you’re stuck somewhere!!

It is a quite short post, but there are some long ones coming up!!! Kiss!!

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II follow rivers

I followed the canals from Moerkerke to Ghent… Actually you cannot really drive by car next to them: it’s only for bikes and people who live there, but I live everywhere I go, no?

At the Landhuis in Gent, a squatted facory building and surrounding grounds, where many peolpe from the neigbourhood make their small garden plots,  I accidentally – since my plan was to go there a week earlier to find some friends of mine to help them with the gardening – found some young social work students who wanted to have an agriculture project for their studies, but they didn’t know how to start it, so I helped them by explaining how to work the ground, enrich it with compost, how they could organise the plot and how to seed… It was an amazing coincidence that brought us all a lot of fun!!

I got a new half price stash of water colors and even some media I never even knew existed… Thank you Gil!!! I will have a wonderful time painting if I find the time and place for it!!

We shared a wonderful day with Zita and Herbert in Ghent at the botanical garden… Zita loved it… I love the place… I have been volunteering there and helped Herbert out with the never ending job of maintaining the gardens… When you come there in the morning and the moist and perfumed air embraces you, you feel like walking in the garden of Eden… And we were extra lucky!! That day some poisonous dart frogs were coming to inhabit the Victoria greenhouse!!!

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I follow rivers

Beautyful days in my beloved oh so flat country….

Many happy encounters with very good old friends… Many happy family times too and preparations to go south again… There are always more practical things to tend to than first envisioned…

I saw – amongst others – Charlotte, Lieselot, Nathalie, Bruno and Thomas… All persons with beautiful souls and with an intensely shared past… We had a girls night at Alexandra’s, a wonderful sunday walk with my dearest grandma, went to Sea Life Center where Nathalie adopted a sick seal cub, we celebrated the 12th birthday of my godchild Alorah….

It is funny how I try to reconstruct the past events by seeing the photo’s… Of many – and some wonderful – events I did not make pictures, so they fall out of the summary…. Actually maybe the story behind the pictures is not so important since they form a story on their own….

Mostly, when I work on a post, I start by writing a very short summary of the period. This time it was this:

“Beautiful days in my beloved oh so flat country….

Many happy encounters with very good old friends… Many happy family times too and preparations to go south again… There are always more practical things to tend to than first envisioned…

Many canlas cut through the pancace-flat plains and are wonderful to follow…

These foggy mornings give beautiful sunrise images…

Enjoy… And thanks for the wonderful times!!”

But then I start uploading the images and realise I already have more than one hundred photo’s on one slideshow, and I want to keep the slide shows digestable, so I have to start a new post…. And then I have to rewrite the short post, since the period becomes shorter and the memories and chronology start to appear while I go through the photo’s….

So here again…. I got to half of the pictures, and the show is long enoug, so there will be a sequel!! Ha ha!!! I never think much of sequels, but in the next post I’m going to show you some footage of a beautiful trip, following the canals from Moerkerke (de Blinker en de Stinker – afvoerkanaal naar Knokke) to Ghent….

Plus…. I am so vain…. I know…. I had a wack self photo shoot with my – bad! – make up…  And I even put the pictures on here… Pfff…. Girls…

Ha ha!!

Ooh yea, I just saw the pictures again and it reminded me… For the first time in ten years I ran out of gas (it even happened very frequently when I had the jeep, I had a jerrycan of 5 liters and was not afraid to use it… ) but it was the first time the car didn’t want to start up after filling it… But a superhero of Europe Assistance rescued me and yes I AM ashamed to say, for the third time in three months… (Motor broke, alternatoror and/or battery, declogging (?) )  I think they will be fed up with me…. Nathalie was a very sporty passenger!! Thanks and sorry Nathalie!!

Thanks for checking!!! Bigg kiss!!!

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Spring is coming!!!

My car is back!!! My house is mine again!!!

Heavy repair works and many costs, but I can go again!!! Woohoo!!! Go and check this part of the planet for nice energies!!! Roaming to find my land and my man!!! Nomad woman praying the universe for her dreams to come true!! I’ll find my path!

It has been quite gloomy weather in Belgium… Bad lighting conditions for photographs… But I’ll give you a small selection…

I’m investigating my homeland… For nice places to stay, for people worth wile… And witnessing Daniel making incredible paintings… I am so privleged… Thank you.

And plans for the next year are coming up… In April I go to the Périgord to install a vegetable and herb garden and orchard for my dear mom… Then one week off to Malta to see my father… And then I think I’ll just stay in the south for investigations… The squatted villages in the Pyrenees Mountains… Go to the Nowhere festival and hope to volunteer…

And hopefully some surfing! It has been a long time… I carried my board on top of my car for a long time now without using it…

So… We’ll see, but things are looking up!!! XX!!

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Sedimentation of thoughts…

Winter passed… I had some time to think, evaluate and digest last year….

So some thoughts and conclusions….

One year and a half ago, I finished my studies of bio-engineering… That day I decided that I would take a holliday for the rest of my life… I was free to do and don’t … Actually I always was, for I am a soul roamig this planet, but now I really FELT free… No more studies to finish, no more deadlines, no more putting energy in things you don’t believe in… Time for meditation, for fun, for real things, for freedom….

So I took the liberty and freedom to get an appartment and work and build the FEELING of freedom…. Many people of my generation flee our world to find better worlds at the other side of the globe… But then they often come back depleated and depressed, in need to do meaningless work to get the money to flee again… I didn’t want to run away to get this feeling of freedom.

I experienced this feeling to do exactly what you want on some of my trips (especially the experience of meeting a tibbetan monk in a mountain village where we both stranded because of public transport, made me see opportunities are always there, you just need the freedom to ACT upon them, and this freedom we normally take out of our lives by wanting to PLAN every thing….), but also in meditation, in good conversations, in just contemplating my surroundings….

So I realised this feeling of freedom many people experience on their voyages, is only there because we have an openness to possibilities…. Now I wanted to cultivate this feeling of freedom in daily life, doing normal things… I had the wonderful experience of being in my own country and explore, travel, enjoy….  When my mother was in the intensive care unit for a month I worked the early shifts in a printing factory… Even here I was able to cultivate my inner freedom, every time I put something on the machine, I thanked the universe for everything I had and would still get… What an amazing feeling to be in a situation where nobody feels free and still feel it!!! People in the factory kept asking what I was smiling about… All good things in my life, I answered….

But then in january I had a paperwork problem that frustrated me so much that I decided to give up rent and to build a horse wagon… This went really fine. I found and bought the underside, had many ideas and we started building the wagon… But my dear mom did’n want me to be without a house of my own, and advised me to buy a caravan… One week before my rent was finished I did, and had an all new freedom to myself!!! Choosing where your house is and what view you prefer!!!

With the caravan I had an amazing time, you followed some of it on this blog… I found many people trying to be free…. People squatting, living in caves, self-built houses and cars… What an exciting world it is!!!

But I realised too…. This amazing traveling I cannot do at the moment with the horse wagon… Winters are too cold for me… And distances too long… This horse wagon is perfect if one day I built the inn I’m dreaming of since more than ten years… But at this moment, I cannot truly follow this path… So Fabien is going to take over the horse wagon while I explore life in the mobilhome….

This year is as a white canvas… Everything is still possible and I just have to mix the paint as I wish to!!!

And the big news: after two months of garage, the car is finally fixed!!!! Spring is coming and we’ll have an exciting new year!!! Woohoo!!!

 

The bite of Jack Frost

Woohoo!!! I survived the frost!!! Thanks to my good friends Nathalie and Maarten, Daniel, my amazing cousins Koenraad en Elewout, and my dear shining godess mom…

It was a wonderful time… Time to share real things and to be creative actors of our lives…

I feel the dark time gives you time to rest, think, plan, make, feel, dream and make contact with the soul… So soulful this period was… Thanks all…

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