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96. Christmas night under the stars
December 25, 2022 7:18 am Leave your thoughtsLavinia, December 24, 2022 How strange I still find it after 4 years, celebrating Christmas in full sun, in temperatures...
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95. Twenty seconds TV star
December 2, 2022 11:49 am Leave your thoughtsLavinia, November 29, 2022 *translation by Google Translate The past weekend was completely unexpectedly turned upside down. As we try...
86. And then it’s your birthday…
June 12, 2022 6:48 am Leave your thoughtsLavinia, june 9, 2022 M. and E. came on holiday with us for the second time. Last year was their...
85. Stars in my head…
May 26, 2022 9:41 pm Leave your thoughtsLavinia, 26 may 2022 The past few weeks we had very stable weather, as it should be. And as we...
84. Mothersday
May 11, 2022 6:44 pm Leave your thoughtsLavinia, Woensdag 11 mei 2022 If suddenly your mother is no longer your mother, but was transformed into a completely...
83. The fall
April 26, 2022 9:14 am Leave your thoughtsLavinia, april 25, 2022 This spring the weather was not really stable here in Alicante. It looked suspiciously like the...
82. Round trip to Belgium
April 12, 2022 2:06 pm Leave your thoughtsBeveren, april 8, 2022 Quite unexpectedly we took the decision that I would travel to Belgium for a few days....
81. One, two, three,… go!
March 14, 2022 9:52 am Leave your thoughtsLavinia, Sunday 13 march, 2022 It has already been two weeks since we opened up. It is an understatement that...
79. Time goes fast, use it though
February 2, 2022 9:59 pm Leave your thoughtsLavinia, February 2, 2022 I can hear it by everyone, that time flies, but it seems to go even faster...
78. New Year anno 2022
January 2, 2022 5:55 pm Leave your thoughtsLavinia, January 2, 2022 Strange, for the first time officialy writing down the year 2022. A new year, new numbers,...
77. Fin de saison
November 29, 2021 4:28 pm Leave your thoughtsLavinia Naturist Resort, 28 november 2021 The last stretch, they say, weighs the heaviest. And until last Wednesday I could...
76. Roommates : Bollie & Billie
October 22, 2021 9:24 am Leave your thoughtsLavinia, October 22, 2021 It’s still early, way too early. Barely 4 o’clock in the morning. You guessed it, my...
74. The first time…
September 8, 2021 9:01 am Leave your thoughtsLavinia, Wednesday September 8, 2021 Time flies here like a raging whirlwind through Lavinia. Guests who stay here for fourteen...
73. Birthday girls @Lavinia
August 28, 2021 6:44 am Leave your thoughtsLavinia, Friday, August 27, 2021 It’s the party week! We could celebrate birthdays for three consecutive days. Wim shot the...
72. The unpredictability of Lavinia
August 6, 2021 9:20 am Leave your thoughtsSan Vicente del Raspeig, August 6, 2021 One thing is predictable here… the unpredictability. Let it be quintessentially Spanish, or...
71. Family-time @ Lavinia
July 17, 2021 7:21 am Leave your thoughtsAlicante, July 10 – July 18, 2021 We’ve been looking forward to it for almost two years…and finally our kids...
Ana’s blog
June 19, 2021 5:39 pm Leave your thoughtsLavinia, zaterdag June 19, 2021 I still have to get rid of him, my egg. It is to say: the...
69. Bulgarian Roses
June 4, 2021 6:15 pm Leave your thoughtsAlicante, Thursday 3 June 2021 The long-awaited text message arrived on Friday! It is our turn to be vaccinated. Together,...
68. Ready? Go!!
May 16, 2021 8:48 pm Leave your thoughtsLavinia, Saturday, May 15, 2021 We now seem to be fully in the starting blocks of the new season. We...
67. From “pelirrojo” to “dumb blonde”
May 2, 2021 6:57 pm Leave your thoughtsAlicante, Saturday, May 1, 2021 Labor Day, also a day off in Spain. So it may be a lighter story...
66. And the winner is…
April 13, 2021 9:08 am 4 CommentsLavinia, April 12, 2021 Since moving to Spain, it seems that we are constantly living with deadlines and emotional ups...
2880 minute rollercoaster
March 12, 2021 8:10 pm Leave your thoughtsLavinia, Friday, March 12, 2021 After writing my previous blog, I knew for sure: I would fly to Belgium. It...
Primal instinct
February 25, 2021 7:21 am Leave your thoughtsLavinia, February 25, 2021 Today little Liv was to be born… It is a frustrating thought that I cannot hold...
When Ana becomes Granny Nude
February 5, 2021 5:23 pm Leave your thoughtsLavinia, Wednesday, February 3, 2021 What preceded… Blog : Granny Nude Today it is going to happen !! I generally sleep...
It’s always spring…
January 31, 2021 11:30 am Leave your thoughtsLavinia, Sunday, January 31, 2021 “… In the eyes of the dental assistant”, who still knows that number? From Peter...
Our own bubble …
January 24, 2021 9:27 am Leave your thoughtsLavinia, Friday, January 22, 2021 For the first time in roughly 3 years, we had the chance to completely ‘disconnect’...
60. A new year, new opportunities
January 4, 2021 5:49 pm Leave your thoughtsSaturday, January 2, 2021 Strangely, this is the first time I have to write the new date, always takes a...
So cozy
December 21, 2020 12:45 pm Leave your thoughtsLavinia, Monday December 21, 2020 Today we would normally spend our first morning in Belgium with our good friends. It...
Dark days
December 8, 2020 12:20 pm Leave your thoughtsLavinia, Tuesday, December 8, 2020 A candle burns constantly in the house, rather a large candle. Not for fun this...
Piranha alert
September 23, 2020 10:05 am Leave your thoughtsLavinia, Wednesday 23 September 2020 Because it is very quiet here -of course- we finally managed to go snorkelling last...
Today red is just love between you and me again (*)
September 8, 2020 3:28 am Leave your thoughtsLavinia, Saturday 5 September 2020 An hour ago the last guests left for the time being, back in the direction...
Granny ‘Nude’
August 26, 2020 10:04 am Leave your thoughtsAlicante, 26 July 2020 This is my 50th article already ! It’s a bit of an anniversary blog, so to...
Robby Senior reanimated
August 6, 2020 9:32 am Leave your thoughtsLavinia, Thursday 6 August 2020 Just before the start of the second opening, after the lockdown, our faithful four-legged friend,...
The fickle side of Lavinia
July 23, 2020 11:14 am Leave your thoughtsAlicante, Wednesday 22 July 2020 I might call it a fickle side, but actually it’s more the unpredictability of life...
Disfrutar es un arte (Enjoying is an art)
July 3, 2020 5:05 pm Leave your thoughtsLavinia, Wednesday 1 July 2020 Life in Lavinia has returned to its normal course. The guests find their way back...
Icarus
June 14, 2020 2:17 pm Leave your thoughtsLavinia, Saturday 13 June 2020 Tired, but also very satisfied, we recovered from the first week when we were able...
Wake me up when it is all over…
May 24, 2020 10:30 am Leave your thoughtsLavinia, saturday 23 may 2020 Last Monday we finally entered phase 1 of the de-escalation plan! Normally, each phase...
Phase 1 -1 = 0
May 9, 2020 1:09 pm Leave your thoughtsSan Vicente Del Raspeig, Saturday 9 May 2020 The night watch is on the road again. Already from 3 o’clock...
A positive strife
April 27, 2020 7:24 pm Leave your thoughtsLavinia, Sunday 26 April 2020 This week we finally had other people around us than just the two of us....
False negative…
April 17, 2020 12:26 pm 1 CommentSpain, Friday 17 April 2020 You don’t think it’s possible. Early this week the results came in from the corona...
When Mommy becomes a grade…
April 9, 2020 6:26 pm Leave your thoughtsLavinia, Tuesday 7 April, 2020 Corona has come closer than ever. But not in the way people have been worried...
All days Sunday…
March 30, 2020 5:52 am Leave your thoughtsSan Vicente del Raspeig, 29 March 2020 Lately we are constantly getting messages from people who are worried how...
The escape from ‘Egypt*’ (*Lavinia)
March 21, 2020 11:43 am Leave your thoughtsSpain, Friday 20th March 2020 It has become strangely quiet in Lavinia. You don’t hear anything there anymore, except the...
The power of Corona
March 15, 2020 4:51 pm Leave your thoughtsLavinia, Saturday 14 March 2020, 2:30 a.m. Humo : It’s got a hold on me, too. Weather you like...
The final race
March 5, 2020 3:34 pm Leave your thoughtsLavinia, Thursday 5 March 2020 It’s another hectic final sprint to get everything ready in time for the first guests...
Famous Flemish people
February 9, 2020 3:45 pm Leave your thoughtsLavinia, Friday 7 February 2020 This week and last week we appeared twice in the Flemish press with Lavinia,...
The countdown…
February 7, 2020 4:16 pm Leave your thoughtsLavinia, Friday 7th february 2020 In exactly one month we will receive our new guests again, and we are looking...
Bubbles and sunshine, it’s called being happy…
January 30, 2020 5:58 am Leave your thoughtsLavinia, Monday 27 January 2020 Since a few weeks there is a major work going on here. As I wrote...
Lavinia, one year later… the crowning glory of our work…
January 19, 2020 8:49 pm Leave your thoughtsWednesday 15 January 2020 Part 1, Wednesday 11 a.m. We moved to Spain 1 year ago to welcome our new...
Good intentions
January 13, 2020 7:54 pm Leave your thoughtsLavinia, Friday 10 January 2020 Early this morning at 5 o’clock we woke up brutally by the alarm ringing loudly....
Feliz Navidad !
December 31, 2019 5:43 pm Leave your thoughtsBruges, 27 December 2019 – Beveren, 28 December 2019 We are 10 days on the road now, on the road...
Christmas time
December 10, 2019 7:11 am Leave your thoughtsLavinia, 10 December 2019 Here we go again, as usual in the middle of the night, when I can’t...
Salud! To old and new friendships !
November 18, 2019 6:07 pm Leave your thoughtsSan Vicente del Raspeig, Monday 18/11/2019 Lavinia is closed for a few months, so that means extra time for ourselves,...
Intercontinental
November 5, 2019 5:55 pm Leave your thoughtsLavinia, Sunday 3 November 2019 I am very proud to announce that last week we welcomed and waved out our...
Adieu Marieke
October 23, 2019 8:19 pm Leave your thoughtsLavinia, Wednesday 23 October 2019 Wheelemia, Marieke Vervoort passed away yesterday, after euthanasia…. I felt a shock through my...
El Viaje, Fasten you’re seatbelts
October 12, 2019 2:56 pm Leave your thoughtsSomewhere in the airspace between Spain and Belgium Thursday, 10 October 2019 It’s just incomprehensible, once, only a few years...
Invasión de mosquitos (mosquito plague)
October 12, 2019 1:30 pm Leave your thoughtsSan Vicente del Raspeig, Monday 30 September 2019 Due to the abundant rain of the Gota fría, the soil and...
Gota Fría – code red
September 24, 2019 5:29 pm Leave your thoughtsSan Vicente del Raspeig, 16 September 2019 The last few days it has often been in the news that...
Dormitorio con vistas
September 4, 2019 8:35 pm Leave your thoughtsLavinia, Sunday 1 September 2019 It seems like a long time since I sat behind my keyboard again. Too long...
Doberman y el fotógrafo
August 13, 2019 11:12 am Leave your thoughtsLavinia, August 13th 2019, I strongly suspect the Spanish authorities that they are manipulating the clock, or at least...
Rico sin dinero
August 13, 2019 8:19 am Leave your thoughtsSan Vicente del Raspeig, Tuesday, July 23, 2019 In the last week of our holiday, one of our best friends...
Las Palmeras
July 23, 2019 5:08 am Leave your thoughtsSan Vicente del Raspeig, Sunday July 14, 2019, 4.00 am In the meantime, we have been on leave for a...
Vacaciones en España
July 8, 2019 9:38 am Leave your thoughtsSan Vicente del Raspeig, July 6, 2019 It is Saturday morning, 6 o’clock, and as so often the early morning,...
San Joan
June 27, 2019 10:45 pm Leave your thoughtsEspaña, June 24, 2019 While San Joan is being celebrated here in Spain, meaning the beginning of the summer, we...
Gran apertura
June 2, 2019 12:40 pm Leave your thoughtsLavinia, June 1, 2019 We have lived and worked for months to yesterday, and countless other people with us. It...
The garden of Eden
May 30, 2019 6:22 am Leave your thoughtsSpain, Sunday 26 May 2019, 3.30 a.m. While everyone in Belgium is getting ready to vote, I currently experience Belgium...
Bulgarian roses
May 16, 2019 8:49 am Leave your thoughtsSpain, May 14, 2019 On Saturday evening we received an unexpected message from a Bulgarian couple that was looking for...
Vamos a Belgica
May 13, 2019 5:04 am Leave your thoughtsSpain, Wednesday, May 8, 2019 After a long doubt, we finally took the plane to Belgium last week. And only...
Semana Santa
April 24, 2019 10:05 pm Leave your thoughtsEaster, Sunday, April 21, 2019 Here in Spain Easter is celebrated exuberantly, especially in the week before, the Semana Santa....
Dos Hermanos
April 8, 2019 5:00 pm Leave your thoughtsSpain, 7 April 2019 This Wednesday my twin brothers arrived in Lavinia. They are the first to test our accommodation....
Goodbye to a friend…
March 26, 2019 7:13 am Leave your thoughtsEspaña, Sunday, March 24, 2019 This week we made the decision, although with a great deal of regret. We can’t...
Gepetto, Cowboy and Macho man
March 26, 2019 7:06 am Leave your thoughtsSpain, Sunday, March 10, 2019 The past week was pretty eventful, I must say. And then each time with a...
El coche, 7529 KTV
March 26, 2019 6:54 am Leave your thoughtsSpanje, zondag 3 maart 2019 Since Friday our mini bus has become Spanish. Import into Spain has been arranged, thanks...
‘Los Vecinos’, unexpected encounters
March 26, 2019 6:49 am Leave your thoughtsSan Vicente, Thursday 31 January 2019 Meanwhile, we live two full weeks in Spain, our own ‘mountain’ as we call...
Viva España
March 26, 2019 6:45 am Leave your thoughtsSpain, Monday, January 21, 2019 The first week here in our new home has flown by. The ride to here...
D-day
March 26, 2019 6:42 am Leave your thoughtsBeveren, Saturday, january 12th, 2019 It is 4.00 a.m. in the morning. Unfortunately, I spent a short night there again....