Europe
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Paris
On the way back from Italy, we needed to go via Paris for an admin issue. During the 2024 Olympics … 😱 We were prepared for the worst, but it was actually the calmest we’d ever seen the city. It seemed that everyone avoided the city unless they were planning to see the Olympics. After…
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Ventimiglia & Monaco
Next to spending time with my family in Belgium and France, we also wanted to have some time as a small family unit. We drove to the first town in Italy: Ventimiglia. There, we mostly spent time at the beach. Mila and I also explored the old town together. Since neither of us had been…
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Mâcon & Pierrelongue
A few months ago, we were in Europe for a bit. We spent about a month in Ypres, but my favourite part was a camping trip with my parents, and two of my siblings and their families. Because of the long drive and not knowing how Luca would handle it, we stopped in Mâcon, a…
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WordCamp Europe in Turin
Even though I’ve attended several WordCamps and have been part of the WordPress community for almost 20 years now—of which more than a decade professionally—I’d only attended one flagship WordCamp: Paris. Since our family was going to be in Europe in June, I signed up for WordCamp Europe in Turin. Here are some of the…
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Frankfurt
In March, I went on my first business trip since Barcelona (almost a year before). Like the last time, I met with the senior leadership team of our support division. We met in Frankfurt, a city I had never been to before. While it was a dense time of working, I also found some time…
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Barcelona
In March of this year, I went to Barcelona for a work trip. I had been twice before on a youth camp, once as participant and one as leader. It was nice to revisit the city with more freedom (and more money). We stayed in Eixample, just of Rambla de Catalunya. This meant that we…
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Keukenhof
Even though I’ve been to Amsterdam multiple times, I had never been to Keukenhof. A few weeks ago, we were in Amsterdam for a few days to attend a wedding, and we took the time to visit the flowers. Admittedly, I’m not the biggest flower fan, so I didn’t have very high expectations, but I…
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Leuven and Brussels
We’ve just come back from several weeks in Europe. Mila’s godmother and her partner came down to Leuven for the weekend, and we spent some time in the city where Kim and I met. Next to that, we also sneaked in a quick trip to Brussels. Here are some pics of those trips. In Leuven,…
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Vienna
When I was last in Vienna, I watched my first-ever Automattic Town Hall: an online meeting with the whole company. This was a few weeks before Automattic’s acquisition of WooThemes was publicly announced. We also were provided access to our internal tools in that week, and I found a few of my new colleagues on…
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Antwerp
Between May and August, we spent about 3-4 weeks in Antwerp, but only on the very last Sunday, we took time for a tourist stroll as a family. We had been to Antwerp in previous years, so wanted to explore some newer parts which we found in Linkeroever. On the way over, we used the…
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Geneva and Clairvaux-Les-Lacs
After our camping trip, we wanted to break up the drive home. We found out my sister was staying near the Swiss Alps, so decided to drive through Geneva to Clairvaux-Les-Lacs. Next to strolling around the city and having some fondue, we enjoyed a refreshing dive in the lake.
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Corfu
Every 5 years, someone working at Automattic gets a 3-month sabbatical. We decided to kick off my sabbatical with a holiday, and settled on Corfu. While we think the island would’ve been too busy a few weeks later, at the beginning of June it was mostly retired people and people with preschoolers (like us). We…
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Amsterdam
I’m not going to lie, when it was first announced that team leads at Automattic were expected to attend leadership training at some point, I was a bit hesitant. I had been already travelled to five countries for work last year and with travel times being at least twelve hours in any direction from Cape…
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Scotland, Belgium & England
Around Christmas we went to visit Kim’s mom in Scotland, friends and family in Belgium, and some friends in London. We both had never been to Scotland or London before and it was a great time exploring these beautiful places.
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Enter Shikari, Cancer Bats (Antwerp)
So far, the only band I’ve shot twice is Enter Shikari and on each occasion, it’s been an absolute pleasure, but also a big challenge. The band simply doesn’t stand still.
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Less Than Jake, Mad Caddies (Antwerp)
I’ve never been a huge ska fan, but seeing these icons of ska and punk rock music perform is always special.
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Oh, Sleeper, Social Suicide (Hasselt)
South Africa isn’t frequented by a lot of metalcore bands and I really wanted to see Oh, Sleeper before moving to that part of the world. Not only did they come to Belgium in the last months before my move, I got to shoot and interview them.
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Christmas Rock Night 2011 (Enneptal)
The first festival I shot, was the annual Christmas Rock Night in Enneptal, Germany. First time for me seeing most of these bands and great fun to take pics of Wolves At The Gates, I Am Empire, John Coffey, Icon For Hire, and Hawk Nelson.
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Enter Shikari, Your Demise (Brussels)
Enter Shikari is the first big concert that I shot. And what a challenge: dynamic, fast, vibrant. So difficult to get a good shot out of that. I wasn’t that blown away by Your Demise, but got some good pics out of them.
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Mike Herrera & MxPx (Leuven)
I started listening to punk rock music in 1997 through MxPx. Needless to say that when I was able to shoot Mike Herrera in August 2010 in Belgium, I was super excited.