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2007-05-31 "Les bonnes choses ont une fin !", as we say in French. This might be my last entry into my blog, as the project "My life" is coming to an end on 31 May 2007. It has been a great experience. It all started last summer when I was contacted by Thorsten, the project coordinator, who was looking for a "profile" of a worker commuting on a daily basis between two countries. I was (and ... [read more] 2007-05-30 More and more travelling those last few days! I´m not only commuting from Brussels to Lille. I did have also a few meetings abroad during the month of May. A one-day meeting in Hamburg with colleagues of a similar programme of mine, but covering a different geographical area: the Baltic Sea Region. We not only shared our experience; but we are also trying to harmonise our ... [read more] |
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Hello, my name is Christophe and I am 44 years old. I am Belgian. Since 2002, I have been working in Lille (France) while I am still living in the Capital of Europe, Brussels. Every day I take the High Speed Train (TGV) to cover the 125 km between the two cities. During the coming weeks and months I will share with you my experience of working abroad. At the age of 18 I was an exchange student in Pennsylvania (USA) for one year: sharing the life of an American family and meeting a lot of other foreign students. That's maybe there I started to like the "international flavour". Back to Belgium, I studied Economics and Political Science in Louvain-la-Neuve, one of the main campuses of the country ... It is mainly for family reasons that I decided to stay living in Brussels: my wife is a doctor and has her practice there; it would have been difficult for her to start from scratch here in Lille. I'm not sure my kids would have like to move to Lille either: they have their friends at school and many other activities in Brussels. Therefore, I decided to commute on a daily basis between Lille and Brussels. The two cities are 125 km away from each other, but are connected by high-speed train in roughly 40 minutes. Door-to-door the journey takes around 1 hour and 10 minutes. I know some friends living in the surroundings of Brussels and that takes about the same time to reach their office in the city centre, stuck in the daily traffic jams ... [read more] |
