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Summer is over, September has started. So we used the bank holiday weekend to get away. Not anywhere far, as one can’t travel anywhere nowadays without much trouble. The result was, we rented a random place in Lincolnshire, since the South of England is crowded and expensive. So we drove up North to a placeContinueContinue reading “A trip to where the Brexiteers live”

I thought I would be more creative during lockdown and the pandemic in general. I should have called this post “The myth of being productive in the times of crisis”. On social media you’d see people using all their new freetime for creative tasks, more exercise, self-improvement and what not. But fact is the crisisContinueContinue reading “It’s not all grey in grey”

It’s been quiet around here. Simply because I haven’t had much to report. And then there is the lack of inspiration that I’m encountering at the moment. When people tell me their lives have pretty much returned to normal, I wonder in which part of the world they live in. Working from home is everythingContinueContinue reading “Felix Mendelssohn & how them classical composers can help you”

We sit comfortably in our homes and privilege waiting for the lockdown to pass. We watch the news and for the first time in 3 months something else than Coronavirus is making headlines. The killing of George Floyd. Or rather the protests that are now happening in the US, UK, Germany, etc. We sit inContinueContinue reading “Choose your way of revolution”

In the light of recent events of another black person killed by white police in the US, I felt the need to write it all down. George Floyd is one of many black people killed by white police. And it seems to happen again and again. Only in the past 3 months a few ofContinueContinue reading “It is our duty”

It’s been a while since I wrote about art, specifically my art. I guess I got caught up in political rants, or critique how my academic side would call it. So today I have a news update from my artistic personality for you, she’s lovely. The painting I’m presenting today is already a few monthsContinueContinue reading “In An Octopus’s Garden”

On the weekend I read the news and literally started to cry at the images and reports of people being prevented by teargas to cross the border from Turkey to Greece. Erdogan has used people as a political tool by dropping the already controversial deal between the EU and Turkey to keep the border closed.ContinueContinue reading “The Beekeeper of Aleppo and the situation on the Greek-Turkish Border”

Long time no blog post. Why that is you may or may not ask. Lack of inspiration, too much going on, no creative input, you can continue the list. Since the last posts were quite political and not the most positive I decided to write about my recent travels this time. Sunset on the SouthernContinueContinue reading “A tale about Tenerife”

So here we are again. A while ago I published a post about being a woman on a bike in London. And not much has changed since then, I’m still getting shouted at for simply being on the road, by men. As a (female) cyclist you either already have a thick skin or you areContinueContinue reading “The power of the female cyclist”

The moment has come. I thought a long time whether I should publish a text about this topic, and I guess that already says a lot about being a woman in this male-dominated society. There, I said it. Yes, women at least in our hemisphere have come a long way but there is still soContinueContinue reading “A bike, a woman & the big Shmoke”