As I type this, my neighbor is probably hiking around what used to be my little corner of the world, La Hulpe, Belgium.
A few weeks ago, she announced that she was going to get to tag along with her husband on a business trip to Brussels. She came over last week and I armed her with the following: guide books, lots of suggestions, a hand-drawn map of my little town, outlet adaptors and my old hairdryer. My European hairdryer is awesome, if I do say so myself.
She was planning to visit La Hulpe on Thursday, today. It's fitting that it's a rainy, Belgium-type day here in Minnesota.
If this had been last year at this time, my heart would physically be hurting right now. I'm so grateful that it's not. I'm glad she got to go. I'm glad I had the chance to tell her about some of my favorite places, and I hope she thinks they are just as special as I did.
If you are just finding my blog for the first time, the entries have become few and far between. But it still serves a purpose. If you are a new expat, please stop and look around. If you find yourself having to leave a country that you've grown to love, you will be especially interested in the last year of entries. This blog contains a lot of experience, that you might even be able to track in a real-time-style as you browse through. If you are feeling overwhelmed by your new country, or overwhelmed by having to leave your adopted country and repatriate to your own, maybe you will find solace in knowing that someone else has traveled that path before you. And maybe you will even find something in here that will help.
In the next post (which I will write when I am feeling nostalgic for days gone by) I will try to link to some of my favorite posts from over the years.
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