‘Los Vecinos’, unexpected encounters

San Vicente, Thursday 31 January 2019 Meanwhile, we live two full weeks in Spain, our own ‘mountain’ as we call it so badly. It looks like it never was different. It seems like we were always here, as if there had never been another, previous life. It feels so home already, all fears – if…

5 February 2019

Viva España

Spain, Monday, January 21, 2019 The first week here in our new home has flown by. The ride to here we have happily done a slow pace, because the second day I fell ill. Abdominal cramps, enormous fatigue, giddy, in short miserable feeling. The result was that I could not drive and Wim had to…

D-day

Beveren, Saturday, january 12th, 2019 It is 4.00 a.m. in the morning. Unfortunately, I spent a short night there again. I enjoy the last day in Schoofland, in Beveren, now for 23 years my home, my nest. It does strange to sit here in an empty room with only a folding table and two chairs,…

Farewell to the Poppies *

Saturday, December 22, 2018 The last days were quite emotional. Gradually comes the realization that I leave a lot of people with whom I have built up a friendship bond for the last year and a half. And that in fact in a quite relatively short period. I could never imagine beforehand that a change…