Five Years Later

Five Years Later

This is the sixth attempt to start this article and I’ve decided to not overthink things too much anymore and just go with the flow.

So, it’s been five years. Five full years since I’ve updated No More Waffles. On the one hand, that sounds and feels like an eternity. It’s about 1/6th of my life so far. But on the other hand, it feels like I’ve never been gone. This blog has been on my mind regularly, like a little devil prodding its miniature pitchfork in the back of my brain somewhere: “Hey, get to writing! You enjoy writing. People think you have valuable information to share.”

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The Experiment – Full-year Review

Review of cycling to work on a road bike after one year!

Yep, the road pictured above is actually part of my daily commute to work. It’s a beautiful stretch of green next to a relatively large lake in the car-free park of Tervuren, which also houses the Royal Museum for Central Africa. Now can you understand why I ride 32km to and from work every day? And that’s not even the best part: I’m getting paid to do so!

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Quick Update

Atomium in Brussels, capital of Belgium and Europe

In light of yesterday’s events in Brussels I received about a dozen of kind e-mails asking if I am okay and wether I’m safe. That’s why I wanted to put out a short post telling you guys that I am, in fact, good and felt safe at all times yesterday, even though I work close to Parliament and I commute past the bombed metro. My family and friends are safe too, although the tragedy left a strong impression on us all.

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