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I think I may have mentioned that I really enjoy my apartment here in Amsterdam. Now that I spend the whole day here I really get the opportunity to see it in different kinds of light, see how the sun stream in and where are the cosy spots to drink my coffee or have myContinue reading “Life in the time of Corona – Captain’s log: Day 31”

I miss my family, and the country I call home. In another life in another time I would have been in South Africa at the moment on my first vacation since moving to the Netherlands. I would have spent time with family and made silly jokes and eaten more meat than in the last sixContinue reading “Life in the time of Corona – Captain’s log: Day 30”

When this all started I thought the lack of live sports on TV combined with people sitting at home will have some interesting side effects. I had a flight of fancy: What if they started showing all the Rugby World Cup matches of 2019, in the order of appearance, but to a wider audience? FootballContinue reading “Life in the time of Corona – Captains log: Day 29”

4 weeks in and I’m kind of getting used to this new way of living. I spend my time mostly indoors and when I go to the shops I take a shopping cart, keep a wide space between myself and others and try to touch as little as possible. Friends and family continue to callContinue reading “Life in the time of Corona – Captain’s log: Day 28”

In the afternoon I took my pink bike out for a ride to the Amsterdamse Bos to see if the cherry blossoms are in bloom. I think I was a bit late, there were some blossoms but I think a week ago it must have been incredible. Even so, it was a pleasure to hetContinue reading “Life in the time of Corona – Captain’s log: Day 27”

Good Friday. Its a different Easter weekend from any other in living memory. People stayed at home, and breakaways to the beach or somewhere special. Throughout the day I kept thinking about my trip to Israel 3 years ago at this time of year. My visit coincided with Easter weekend, because I was going toContinue reading “Life in the times of Corona – Captains log: Day 26”

The highlight of the day was that I accidentally called a work associate by his last name, in stead of his first. We had a little laugh over it in a teleconference. I am sad, because I was planning to go on a holiday for the Easter weekend and the following week. I was planningContinue reading “Life in the time of Corona – Captains log: Day 25”

Spending this much time in a social distancing situation is bound to lead to some introspection. Whatever your current situation, it is very likely different from how you thought your year would look when you said Happy New year 98 days ago. In less than 100 days everything we took for granted has changed. AllContinue reading “Life in the time of Corona: Captains log – Day 24”

The sun is out and the days are getting warmer. The trees outside my window is starting to sprout young leaves. Nature is continuing the cycle of growth and life regardless of the global health crisis. Inside their houses people are worrying about the world economy, job losses and literally staying alive, while outside theContinue reading “Life in the time of Corona – Captain’s log: Day 23”

The world is going crazy. I am flooded with memes, good ones and bad ones and sometimes I am not even sure if it’s really funny or whether anything is funny because everything is upside down. When I started writing this blog I expected that the world will go crazy and maybe they will playContinue reading “Life in the time of Corona – Captain’s log: Day 22”