Pandemic life in Belgium

Living as a stranger with no money in your own country with your parents and doing your old job in the middle of a pandemic and without almost any kind of social contact. For a traveller who loves his freedom it sounds like a lot of reasons to fall in a depression. But somehow i managed it to do it for 4 months. Summer helped a lot, although it is still cold in summer in Belgium in my opinion. But what mostly helped was meeting people I met during my travels that live in Belgium and off course buying a surf skate and just enjoying the little things in life and a mate from time to time.

Except that i was working what people call a "normal" job for 4 months (yeah i know a long time) i still found time specially on my day offs for a skate, hiking, cycling, chilling. Spent some time in Ghent but I also went to the pump tracks in Belgium (One in Antwerp and especially the one in Genk is just amazing and soooo much fun).

It is been a weird 4 months because for people who know me, that I hardly say anything positive about Belgium. Further than fries and the beer i never came. Well I can say that Belgium is much more than that. Beautiful nature (especially in the south), it is a different world out there. I started appreciating the country where i was born, but honestly I think I can never live in Belgium anymore. It is just not me, it is not my world. That is something I definitely realised in the time i was back, although it is hard say things like that in the middle of a pandemic but no, it will never be a country that I want to live in.

Socially the last months were really calm, definitely in Belgium where the pandemic is been terribly controlled and where social contact even in summer was limited. But it made me save some money up the last months. When they started closing things up again in Belgium, definitely when the rumours came up to do a total lockdown again in Belgium. (I just couldn't do another lockdown and definitely not winter in Belgium) I had to escape, so i decided to book a flight to the canary island for 2 days later. About the only place in Europe where you can escape winter and maybe a lockdown.

October 31th is the date i got some of my life again, that i hadn't had since march. But more over this later ...