Finding Meaning Where I Am

“There aren’t any needs here.” That’s what we heard over and over when we moved to Luxembourg. Regularly hitting the top three richest nations in the world (by GDP), Luxembourg is a beautiful and pristine little country, snuggled between Belgium, France and Germany. From first impressions, it certainly looks like there is not much wrong…

Never have I fled

There was a sweet middle-aged Tibetan woman in my Monday evening English class. She wore lengths of fabric wrapped around her as a skirt and thick woollen socks under her sandals to ward of the cold wet Belgian winter. Her English was almost non-existent. We worked our way slowly, oh so slowly, through a few…

Our Brussels apartment

I joke to everyone that came to our flat in Brussels that it was the reason I married Rasmus 🙂 Of course, that’s not actually true but I do love that flat so much, and it’s hard to leave it behind. It’s just a one bedroom apartment but it has a big open kitchen and…

Christmas Market status update…

Last week they had drained the fountain and delivered the cabin pieces. Today, they’ve erected the base of the ice rink and the light fixture for the middle of it, put up all the market cabins and are erecting the cafe… Only two weeks until the market open and it is officially declared Christmas!

Brunch at the farm

Yesterday morning, I met up with three girlfriends and we drove out of the city to Vieux-Genappe, a village I’d never heard of in the Belgian countryside by Waterloo. Our destination was La Ferme du Hameau du Roy, a small farm with an amazing bakery and a small cafe.   It was a grey, miserable day…

Christmas is coming!

We live very close to the square on which the main part of the Brussels Christmas market takes place every year. Yesterday morning as we were walking through, we spotted some recent additions… The fountain has been drained ready for the ice rink that will be installed over it in the coming weeks, and the…