Category: Life
Ohrid, North Macedonia (3)
Sunday was our last day in North Macedonia. We had booked the excursion to St. Naum, a monestary at the South end of Lake Ohrid, close to the border with…
Ohrid, North Macedonia (2)
On Wednesday, we went on our first excursion. We were picked up from the hotel at around 8.30am by the tour guide. After we picked up a few more people,…
Ohrid, North Macedonia (1)
On Sunday 16 June, we began our one-week holiday by travelling from Amsterdam Schiphol Airport to Ohrid. The flight was delayed by approximately 45 minutes, and we arrived in Ohrid…
What (sometimes) keeps me up at night
Lately, I’ve been preoccupied with the finitude of life. It’s the one constant of life, the fact that one day we’re going to die. I don’t fear death per se,…
“Trust me, I’m a doctor.”
Every now and then, I watch an episode of “Trust me, I’m a doctor” which is presented by Dr Michael Mosley. In the program, he does all sorts of “scientific”…
“The trouble is, we think we have time.”
Okay. Let’s start with a trigger warning. If you’re in a difficult place right now, you might not want to read any further. I’m going to talk about life, and…
One year of working from home
For the past year or so, I have been working mainly from home. Before that, I had almost always worked from offices, so this turned out to be a bit…
Time. It’s all any of us has got.
Recently, I finished reading ‘The Art of Action’ by Stephen Bungay. In it, he writes this: “Morale drops if an organization wastes people’s time. They get resentful because time is…
Why I love Perth
When my wife and I moved to Perth, we really didn’t know what we were getting ourselves into. Having lived in the Netherlands for all my life, living abroad was…