It’s 3am and I can’t sleep. So I thought I might as well write about why. Last night, well on Saturday, I went to a Eurovision party in Germany. This sounds very extreme, but it was just over the border from Maastricht. I took the bus there which took…
View PostMaastricht is a beautiful city all year round, but when the sun shines, it’s really something else. We’ve been having a little heatwave lately, and with the sun beaming down from the sky illuminating the Maas river, the views are truly breathtaking. The town, much like the rest of…
View PostI. Love. Concerts. Do you? I don’t know what it is, there’s probably a word for it, but after I see a concert or a show at the theatre I feel so alive. Like the world is nothing but magic and anything is possible. It’s the best feeling.…
View PostAfter watching the event of our lives, which was ‘Beychella’, my heart was completely full. Full I tell you! Because I am a tad oblivious, I didn’t realise that Beyoncé’s headlining performance at Coachella was happening yesterday, or that it would be streamed on YouTube in all its glory.…
View PostA few weekends ago, I pretty much hibernated. I bought food on the way home from work on Wednesday afternoon, and didn’t step back outside until Saturday, to go to work. Before you panic for my well-being this isn’t super unusual for me. Often I can get carried away working…
View PostWorking in an international environment in the Netherlands, I consistently take for granted my lack of language skills. Here I am awed, by colleagues and friends, who speak, two, three, four, five plus languages, whereas they see this as something as run of the mill. Depending on their backgrounds, they’ve…
View PostTo me, one of the single best benefits of cold weather is snow. If it’s cold without magical white flecks falling from the heavens, I’m often not impressed. This Monday, as I went to retrieve my bike from its resting place for my commute to work I found it was…
View PostApplying for jobs is a gruelling and unequivocally soul destroying process. I am passionate about few things, one of them is how much I dislike applying for jobs. Nothing makes me feel quite so inadequate about the skills and experience I have than inputting said information into different job databases…
View PostYou may or may not know, but the number 17 is kind of my lucky number. As the year approached; I along with many others declared internally ‘This is going to be my year!’, and you know what…it actually kind of was. Despite laughing at all the memes of people…
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