So since about two weeks, I’m back in Belgium! The DiXiT postdoc in Sweden has run its course, and now I’m working at the University of Antwerp again. More on that soon – but the long and short of it is that I’ve moved back home, and was very happy to return to Annelies (and our…

This is an edited translation into English of a letter I wrote to my father while I was trying to get from Gothenburg to Borås, after docking in Gothenburg’s industrial harbour. Some events may have been exaggerated a little. Hi dad! […06:45…] We’ve just docked in Gothenburg! Taking the boat was quite an experience! It…

As I already indicated in my previous post — which already dates back a couple of months, sorry for that! — a busy schedule has delayed this post quite a lot. But it’s finally here. I hope you’ll enjoy! At the end of April, I went back home to Belgium, to get the last of…

First ride again in almost two months. So much for that good start of the year! Bad weather and busy schedules — no excuse, I know. Since I was using my MTB again, I decided to take a detour on the way to (and back from) Mechelen, across a patch of MTB terrain I’ve had my…

I started off the year with such a good start, and the weather was so nice, that I didn’t want to do less than last week. So when I got to Duffel, this time without getting lost, I decided to take a left and cycle towards Mechelen before going home. I’m glad I did it, but…

New records are a great way to start the new year! It wasn’t my fastest trip to date, but it was definitely my furthest. And on the MTB too – not because if the roads, but because the Peugeot has another broken spoke. I went to say hi to Annelies who was doing her stable chores,…

Not a great time, but not a bad one either, considering that my previous serious racing ride (not counting a slow phone run in wet weather and civilian clothes) dates back from early October. The weather was great, but there was a strong wind that stubbornly seemed to challenge me in both directions for some reason. Still,…

My bike was finally ready (two broken spokes in the back wheel), and I needed to get a new battery for a phone, so I decided to ride my bike from the bike shop to the phone repair guy, and home again. I’m glad I have my bike back, but this wasn’t the weather for…

Nice ride, enjoying a fine autumn day. By myself this time because Annelies had gone horseback riding. The ‘Edegemse Bergen’ is a nice place for a MTB ride, with some great routes. The only problem is that because the soil is mostly sand, the terrain is terrible when it’s been wet — which of course damages…

This was the first time that Annelies and I took our mountainbikes on an actual Bloso MTB track in the neighborhood. It was good fun, but it took us a while to find the track, and then there was an error in the route: an arrow that pointed right, where there shouldn’t be an arrow at all.…