Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
I started investigating life in Belgian about a year ago. We watched Rick Steves, I followed new hashtags on Instagram, we started studying French. I began to get excited about what we could expect: SPRING! Belgian bluebells in forests near Hallerbos! Winding pathways through gorgeous tulips! Castles and chateaus and gardens! We knew moving here…
Once in awhile you have those moments in life where everything clicks into place. You realize THIS IS WHERE I AM MEANT TO BE. Here, I am using my talents to make the world a better place. It’s almost as if, for one frozen cross-section of time, you can see the earth from an eternal…
Gray, light gray, occasional slate—this is Belgium’s color palate, I thought rather bleakly a few months ago. A faint blush warmed to pink. Then suddenly, the entire landscape was obliterated with green. It’s been shocking. This week’s predominant color combination is green and purple. Every walk is perfumed with lilac—I smell them before I see…
On quarantine day 11,579, a rare and valuable shipment of Starbucks coffee and genuine half and half arrived at the Krueger household after a shortage of some months. On this most glorious day, I may have overindulged a little. After my third cup, sweating and unable to contain my unfocused excitement, I embarked on a…
Dînant is one of the first charming little Belgian towns I visited a few weeks after we moved in. And also one of the last, since within a few weeks we’d all be in lockdown. My parents were visiting and we took the kids to see whatever there is to see in winter in Dinant!…
I’m at my place. The local stay-at-home campaign has different slogans up all over the neighborhood but “Je suis chez moi”—“I’m at my place”—that’s my favorite. We go to school at home. We go to church at home. We eat every meal at home. We slowly go insane at home. We enjoy the weather and…
Eloise has been riding her bike around with no wheels for a year or more, but always needed a boost to get going. The other day she was being super grumpy about riding her bike, even with help, so… I stopped helping… and she did it on her own! She was so delighted with herself!…
