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Coming home to the landscape

The older I get, the stronger my connection to the Kempen becomes. Not out of nostalgia, not as a romantic glance backwards, but as a slowly growing appreciation. For the landscape, naturally. But just as much for the people who live here, work here, and stay. You only truly get to know a region once you stop passing through it and...


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Why Working Slowly Is Not a Waste of Time

We live in a time where speed and productivity have become the norm. Everything has to move forward, preferably all at once and as fast as possible. Work is measured in output, visibility, and results. In that logic, slowing down seems suspicious, even irresponsible.

Yet it is precisely in this ...


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An Accessible Building Method

The wood strip method is, to me, one of the most beautiful ways to build a wooden canoe. It is refined yet accessible, technically well thought-out but easy to understand. In the workshops I guide at Freeranger Canoe, this method allows builders to create a canoe that is not only aesthetically conv...


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Discovering the Beauty of the Semois

Saturday morning, nine o’clock. I am standing with a group of Dutch friends by the small church in Tintigny. They are already impressed. The drive here led us through one of Belgium’s most beautiful regions, the gently rolling Gaume, wrapped in morning mist, with sandstone farmhouses scattered across the landscape. A foreta...


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