What’s Going On?

I am not referring to the song by Marvin Gaye… No, I am merely repeating what you all must have thought the last 2 months.

The wedding is still on! But it is true that since March other thoughts have occupied our minds. To be honest, March and April 2016 have not been very kind to us. Lars has been plagued by administrative and linguistic problems in his attempt to regain his driver’s license. In short, Belgian law is overcomplicated and at some point we even had the feeling that we were the principal characters in a novel written by Kafka. It took us two months just to arrange two of the three tests he has to take. As you know, I am still recuperating from a severe depression and having to deal with impolite and/or incompetent people on the phone did not make me feel better, at the contrary.

But things are looking up. Lars and I have found a solution for all our problems and we can finally look forward to our first trip of the year: Denmark. Not a new horizon, granted, but at least a different one. Okay, we have had a couple of day-trips (Paris and London), but we have not been away for a longer time and boy, do we miss that… If travel is part of your lifestyle, not being able to do this is the worst punishment possible.

If you have been following us on our travel website, you must have seen that Lars and I had to postpone and even cancel some of our trips. We won’t be able to make it to Albania this year, but we probably will next spring. On the other hand, we postponed our trip to Romania to September 2016, so it coincides with the 6oth birthday of Lars. Not sure what other places in Europe we will see during that trip, but we do have wild dreams!

Before we leave for Romania, Lars and I will start the procedures for our civil marriage here in Brussels. In the meantime we will keep you busy with our dreams about the food and music at our wedding.