Now that we have been blogging about our sabbatical for more than a year, it might be interesting for you, our dear readers and followers, to see what that has been like: how many visitors and views did we have, where do our readers come from, what are the most viewed pages, what are our writing goals and policies, and how did we keep it up and what experiences did we have? … More A year of blogging about our sabbatical
Afgelopen week was een gewone werk-vanuit-huis week. Maar we zijn wat meer de deur uit geweest. Cristina heeft een paar dagen interviews buiten de deur gedaan – met masker natuurlijk. We hebben een morgen in het kantoor van Osa Conservation gewerkt. En nu zijn we op een vierdaagse excursie! … More Week 19. Excursie!!!!
Over the last couple of weeks, those of you following this blog might have been surprised by the multiplication of blog posts…in different languages. So, here is why. Making the blog accessible to all From the start, Frank and I decided that we would write the blog in English as the main language. But we … More The challenge of a multilingual blog
We hebben een sociaal leven. Dat is het grootste nieuws van deze week. Ja, we bloggen er op los en hebben gisteren maar liefst de 50ste volger gekregen. En we emailen en skypen en whatsappen met familie en vrienden. Wat dat betreft komen de routines van Lund weer terug, zeker nu we ontdekt hebben dat … More Week 17. Een sociaal leven
Some weeks before we jumped in the plane towards Costa Rica and when I was drown in the correction of the exams, wrapping up papers and writing project applications, Frank said “we needed to talk”. And after what seemed to me a very long silence he added: about blogging, how we were going to do … More The thrill of blogging
Yesterday night, at around 17.00 local time we landed at Juan Santamaria International airport, close to San José, the capital of Costa Rica. After getting through passport control, luggage collection and check and finding a taxi, we arrived to our new home for the coming week. That was two in the morning in the Netherlands. … More We made it!
I cannot even remember when it started, but Cris and I had been cherishing the idea of a sabbatical for a while. We’ve both been working for twenty years non-stop and it is time for a break. Over a year ago we marked a year in our calendars: 2020 (Only now that I write it … More The journey began more than a year ago, and now we have a blog
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