Since our survey got cancelled, we decided to use this ‘free’ time to our advantage and go on a writing retreat in the week of 12-16 August. For five days we searched out the quiet, somewhere deep in West-Flanders, in a village called ‘Zonnebeke’. And on those five days we started to write. For the WALDO PhD students this meant coming up with paper ideas and trying to figure out the outline of our thesis. We used the pomodoro technique; writing in periods of 25 minutes. Looking back, we can say that it proved itself very useful! And hopefully, in a few months time, everyone will be able to see some first published results…