Growth, ponderings and adventures
I started bouldering only a few months ago actually, after moving to the Netherlands and realising it seems to be the thing for every other person here. I didn’t have much expectations and mostly went for the company the frist time because I met someone who was into it, but sooner than I knew the [...]
I recently came back from a trip to South America, and on the way there, we stopped over in Aruba for a few nights. Aruba is an island in the Carribean, just north of the coast of Venezuela. It is an autonomous country but also a part of The Netherlands. This means that the country [...]
Way before the pandemic, the glamorous idea of digital nomadism, working from under palm trees and maybe being your own boss had started taking off, in contrast with the traditional way of thinking about travel as free time and come corporate office as work environment. Then came covid and first, travel stopped. Bye bye, digital [...]
2022. The turn of the year always brings this sense of opportunity for what’s ahead, but also always finds me in awe of just how many things fit in the previous year. So before turning the page on new things ahead, I took a moment to reflect on one of the big events for me [...]
I recently re-read pages of an old diary I had almost ten years ago. In the process, while I took note that a lot of things have changed and my life today is drastically better than I would have imagined it to be back then. I realised that something fundamental hasn't changed. I am still [...]
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