At the end of 2020, Europe feels very different. It looks and sounds different. It even smells different.

Our experience of touch, sight, sound, smell and taste.

Because of coronavirus, it all changed, as we had to change.

But with the emergence of the vaccine, do we go back now to our old ways?

Or do we go forward? Is it time to rethink our relationships with our senses, the very things

that connect us to our friends, our families, our neighbours, our societies and to ourselves.

I allowed myself, I have an old friend that I lived with and we kind of allowed ourselves to

hook. Back in April, four radio producers across Europe,

Julie in Denmark, Marco in Italy,

Steve in Scotland, and me, Katerina, here in Belgium, we started to think about this.

We began to talk to each other, remotely, of course, about how we and those around us were feeling their way through the crisis.

We started collecting stories and exchanging experiences.

The stuff that might seem insignificant in the big picture.

elsewhere in Europe Cyprus has also hit a new peak as is Poland.

This is not the story of the hundreds of thousands of people who've died across Europe.

Or of the doctors and nurses or those who've kept the buses and the shops going

but it's about something that's affected all of us living in this world of

lockdowns, uncertainty and fear drawing in on ourselves.

It could be described as a revolution of the senses. We are going to share some of these stories now here on the BBC World Service, beginning in Belgium with Katarina's Metz.

Yeah.

So Katarina, how is it where you are?

In Antwerp, the streets have been very silent, but I was allowed to enter a dance studio of the

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