Just as it’s sometimes challenging for me to receive things from other people it can also be pretty difficult to say out loud that I am good at something. Or let’s make that: great at something. Quite some parameters of course play a role in this, let’s take culture for example. If I generalize (a…

After years of what feels a bit like climbing a mountain I have now reached a point in my life where things have slowed down for real. I have consciously cut away a lot of noise in my life by quitting my job and moving with my family to a little village by the sea…

I hereby admit to be a huge fan of a dutch journalist called Joris Luyendijk. It all started when I read his book People Like Us: Misrepresenting the Middle East. I loved the way he writes and to me a man who knows his way with words and has the ability to write intelligently is…

Our neighbour here in Spain is called Jo. She is a really nice young woman from Scotland who told me one day that her parents were coming over to Spain for a visit. A few days later I saw a man sitting on her balcony. I waved to him, he waved back and in the…

If you use social media, when was the last time you saw a picture of an alcoholic beverage in your feed? A glass of champagne on the edge of a jacuzzi, a colourful drink at a bar or a glass of wine by a fireplace perhaps? These three exact pictures came up in my feed…