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An indie night in Bilbao

November 25th, 2009 reynders.nike No comments

When it comes to music concerts in the Basque Country, Bilbao tops all the other cities. On Friday Heineken Greenspace introduced two rising indie bands in Santana 27. When I saw this on the internet, I was extremely happy to go there, since I had to miss one of these bands when they played in Belgium a while ago. Read more…

Reflecting about TV from our childhood

October 29th, 2009 reynders.nike No comments

Today Michael and I had to give a presentation about television in our childhood for our Digital Journalism class.  Some of our fellow Basque students also had to make one, so we could compare our viewing habits with theirs. Read more…

“It was perfect a dream came true, just like a song by Blink-182″

October 29th, 2009 reynders.nike No comments

One of my favorite things to do is going to concerts and discover new music. Since I’ve been here I haven’t had the chance to do so, until last weekend! Read more…

Visitors from Belgium, part 2: Swimming in your underwear and partying the night away in Eskoriatza

October 22nd, 2009 reynders.nike No comments

This weekend I had two guests in the Basque Country! Sander and Davy came to visit me. After we spent an evening and night in Bilbao, we visited San Sebastian.

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Visitors from Belgium, part 1: A mix of languages and a new Belgian connection!

October 20th, 2009 reynders.nike No comments

Like I already said in my previous blogpost, I had some Belgian guests over this weekend. Sander, a very good friend of mine came to visit me in the Basque Country, and he took his friend Davy with him. During these two days we visited Bilbao, San Sabastian and partied in Eskoriatza.

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Preview of a hopefully exciting weekend!

October 16th, 2009 reynders.nike No comments

I’ve been here for over a month, and I’m starting to miss some of my friends from back home. So I was very delighted when my good friend Sander told me he would come and visit me this weekend!

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Flemish seperatism and the Basque movement

October 15th, 2009 reynders.nike No comments

Whenever we say we’re from Flanders, the Basque people always think that the situation in Belgium is almost identical to the one in Spain and the Basque Country . While in fact it there are more differences than there are similarities. Read more…

Things I miss from Belgium

October 8th, 2009 reynders.nike No comments

I’ve never been the person to be homesick, but there are always some things I miss about our little rainy country Belgium.

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Swimming in San Sebastian

October 7th, 2009 reynders.nike 2 comments

While the rain is pouring down in Belgium, it’s around 27 degrees in The Basque Country. So yesterday we decided to hit the beach in San Sebastian!

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Erasmus = studying, working and partying!

October 6th, 2009 reynders.nike 1 comment

Today we had our second class of Digital Journalism where we were divided into groups of three to work on a project. We got the assignment to make a comic using pictures we made ourselves.

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