Time to celebrate my 'new' appartment: a real 4 course diner with my good friends :-) The afterparty in the city centre was funny and ended late (now)...

The prepartions are ready...

... during the diner.

In the context of the Creativity Forum, the major musea of Ghent organized tonight a special event: "Museumnacht" (the dutch word for "Museum Night"). They staid open untill midnight and worked around special themes. Together with Wouter DJ and Tom D I visited the Bijloke and the House of Alijn. At the first we found out more about Ghent past, present and future urban plans, the other should 'Super8' movies from the second half of previous century.


(left) Design for port by O.M.A.
(right) Presentation in chapel of Bijloke

Early this morning... I enjoy the sight while not enjoying the traffic jams :-s

After an extra long weekend (it included Monday), I used my 'moving home vacation' day to switch tires on my car, to pass by the "administratief centrum" of Ghent, and I even jumped in on the official opening of the President's meeting of BEST (organised by my former LBG, Ghent namely). The opening was very elegant: in the prettiest room of the city hall, with prince Laurent speeching and a reception afterwards :-) Somewhat melancholic I thought about the PM in Mamaia 4 years ago...

ps. Some pics of the prince & the audience (from my seat) !

"Le Cigalon" was our hotel for the weekend: a cosy place with magnificant food in the restaurant in the most beautifull region of Luxembourg, the 'Mullerthal'. Food and drinks (I'm a big fan of Luxembourg wines) filled our evenings, while we visited the MUDAM and a local wine farmer on Saturday afternoon.


The waterfall of Mullerthal was our Sunday visit...

The 330 km trip back home was far less pleasant :(

The VTKgalabal of next month, and the Bernard Massart on the same evening as our VTKalumni meeting are reasons enough reasons to start a little earlier with the champagne tasting: during the meeting already :)
Some pizza's and a magnum of champagne - great idea Pieter!

"Amuses gueulles" in Ghent this evening with collaegues from the UAT Ghent: 4 dishes at 4 different spots in the historic centre of Ghent. Starting with champagne on a boat, starter in Bennesteeg, main course in the building with the only and oldest wooden façade, and dessert at "Faim de toi" -delicious. Of course, we ended for a drink in 't Vosken ;-)

Some just discovered spots in Ghent (near) where I live now.

One week has passed almost... an extremely busy one: badminton with Wouter DJ, Filmfestival Gent (movie: "Scattered Soul") with Wouter DJ and Tom D, meeting with the VTK young alumni, sending out VTKalumni's 3rd e-zine and tonight there is/was the wine tasting of the young Vlerick alumni. And I'm totally exhausted now! Time to go to bed! Big kiss x

Interieur 2006, the design biennale, started yesterday. This morning, Jérémy and I, both architecture & design lovers, visited the fair at Kortrijk Xpo. After some years of 'minimalism' and abstract shapes, baroque (!) explosions are hot now... After tree hours, we started to feel uncomfortable surrounded by all this excentric luxury :-s

"Vooruit" is one of Ghent's most famous buildings: built be the people, for the people just before the first world war, totally according to the socialist thoughts. Nowadays, the building is renovated and used as an arts centre - the biggest one in Belgium (according to this afternoon's guide ;-)). It is the school example how old renovated building remains completely public throughout the whole year: it is a protected monument... full of life and people!

Katrijn, Wouter and I had to opportunity to visit it and see more as the public parts of it.

I just arrived home... The Accenture Rookies Party was great! I had a lot of fun, danced the whole time and enjoyed myself a lot! Just a pity that some 'sluts' showed up in the end... Apparently some women need male company to have fun: poor them! I don't need that to party hard -which I did tonight! I'm looking forward to the next party opportunity :-)

Accenture colleagues: Tom, me and Dries.

Surprisingly, the daily traffic jams do still not annoy me: I love looking at the sky, the mist above the fields, the other people in the cars around me, the sun rise ... For me (until now) it is a perfect intermezzo between waking up and starting to work ;-) But I won't care if I'd be in Brussels in half an hour, instead of much more!

My place :)

I'm living here for about one month now... Things have their own places now and I feel absolutely at home here :-)

Mijn derde boeleke

After the big green Rover, there was a tiny silvergray KIA, but since last weekend I changed it for the car promised in my employment contract: the dude above ;-)

0110Gent concert

Jasper Steverlinck and his band Arid during one of the concerts for tolerance today. Rob, Fré, Wouter and I had a nice time!

It's raining man!

Some sun and some rain... the road to Ghent this afternoon.

WEEKEND jippie !!!

Exactly 4 weeks ago, I started working at Accenture. Since that day, I admire this building each morning and evening... often while 'enjoying' the traffic jams at the entrance of Brussels.

IKEA bis

Today, Jérémy's new place in Leuven was next. How father and son start assembling a small cupboard...

While my parents and brother were at the seaside...

Sunset in the daily traffic jam on my way home. Compare with this one!