🌲 Forest > Fireworks: My National Day Escape
Today was Belgium’s National Holiday. The country celebrates, everything closes, and Brussels lights up with activities and crowds. My reaction? “Perfect time for a hike.” I…
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From Canal Calm to Coffee Conquest
Friday energy hits different. Maybe it’s because the weekend is peeking around the corner, or maybe it’s because I split today’s walk between zen-like canal paths and the shiny…
Two Walks, 16k Steps, and a Full Heart
Today felt like hitting the reset button – twice. The first walk was a lunch break escape with @nathalie-s. The air smelled like warm fields and wildflowers, bees and…
Golden Hour Strolls & 10km of Joy
Some Thursdays just get it so right. Enough work to keep the brain fired up, but not so much that I was glued to a chair. That left me space for two 5km walks—one under a bright…
Streams, Trees, and Family Ease
We traded traffic jams for tree jams today (the leafy kind). The German-speaking part of Belgium delivered exactly what we needed: a calm, green wonderland with streams gurgling…
Lunch Break, Rain Break, Mind Break
The skies were brooding, my calendar was packed, but today I flexed my favorite underrated muscle: the one for setting boundaries. Midday, I escaped for a quick walk—just me, the…
Stolen Time and Cloudy Skies
You know those days where the universe sneakily hands you back time? That was today. Thanks to holiday-thinned traffic, I won 1.5 hours i wasn’t expecting. And rather than scroll…
The Accidental Upgrade: From Windows 11 to 10k Steps
Today was supposed to be a standard office day. No walks, just a full calendar and the quiet hum of my laptop. But then came the Windows 11 upgrade—two glorious hours of my…
Little Boys. Big Moves. Proud Dad.
Today’s steps didn’t hit 10k, but my legs feel like they climbed Mount Everest. Why? Because they weren’t taken along peaceful canals or through leafy forests—they were taken up…
10K Steps, 6 Interruptions, 0 Regrets
Today’s edition of Lunch Break Chronicles comes with a twist: remote work expectations vs. reality. I had a 60-minute window, a pair of worn-out sneakers, and one goal—get…
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