In the month of October each year, we have marked one weekend in our calendar which is very special for the family. It is the weekend of the LEGOWORLD event in Utrecht, Netherlands. After a 1,5 hour drive from home, we arrived around 10 AM at the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht. Six exhibition halls full of […]
Today’s blogpost will be a more personal one… August has passed and the last weekend of August has been an exciting weekend for myself, my family and friends. First of all, we gave our second Financial Education class to our kids about compound interest. Not an easy topic to teach… but we succeeded in our […]
Hi everyone ! In our 2017 Objectives Setting blogpost, we planned to execute three financial literacy lessons for the kids. My son and my girlfriend’s son are 12 and 13. My daughter is eight. You can’t start early enough with teaching kids how to deal with money. Recently I read a column of Bakelants & […]
In our Objectives 2017 setting, we jotted down on nr 3″Plan and relax two weeks somewhere in the world with the family for a SUMMER vacation”. During the year, after paying ourselves first in our investment portfolio, we set aside month after month vacation money (Layer 3 in our Financial Strategy – Saving for specific […]
Puy du Fou, an incredible and breath taking experience Three years ago I learned about Puy du Fou when we were on vacation close to Saint Nazaire. This park was chosen to the Best Park of Europe. So when I decided for a 2017 vacation location, I decided to pick a holiday vacation which was […]
July has passed and one sports event jumped out on the sports headlines for me. The eight victory of Roger Federer in the tennis Wimbledon final. It was a memorable milestone for Roger Federer, who became the first man in the history of the Wimbledon Championships to lift the title eight times. Well…this dividend income report […]
Vacation time has ended and back to work. Soccer season has also started and coaches are finetuning their strategy and execution plan with the (new) team that they now have. This week I am for business in a town called Lviv in Ukraine. A lovely town where local people also enjoy life the same way […]
At the end of March, I read an interesting article about a brand new indoor theme park Comics Station Antwerp that would open its doors in the heart of the city of Antwerp in April. Located inside one of the most beautiful train stations in the world, Comics Station is a unique concept, the first of its kind in […]
Saturday morning 22 April. We just finished breakfast. Our first horse riding class of the season got cancelled as our teacher texted that she was sick. Nothing we could do about it but it changed my day program that I planned. I get a phone call on my mobile…it shows UNKNOWN…mmmm I am always sceptical […]
Hi everyone ! In our 2017 Objectives Setting blogpost, we said that we wanted to do three finance lessons for the kids. My son and my girlfriend’s son are 12. My daughter is eight. You can’t start early enough with teaching kids how to deal with money. In below roadmap, you clearly see how you […]