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Where Am I Now?

From this coming weekend until early January I am house-sitting on a house (and cat-sitting two cats) in Rotterdam, so that too will be nice Christmas with the family in the Netherlands!

I live in the city of Almada (2) in Portugal. Just a train/ferry/bus ride away from Lisbon and the beaches. I share a comfy apartment with a French young man, a Colombian lady, and my cat Shady. We are all sort-of digital nomads and work from home – when we are not elsewhere for a long time.

What Work Do I Do Now?

I am available for freelance jobs on Upwork.com, but mostly active as a remotely operating translator, copywriter and proofreader. I had an opinion piece published in the Dutch newspaper NRC last month en currently I am translating the entire website of Desktronic into Dutch.

And What Else?

I volunteer twice a week at the local food bank of Refood in Almada (except for two weeks in December surrounding the holidays). I really enjoy this escape as it allows me to make a positive impact on my local community, welcome new meaningful social connections, and develop new skills (and learning better Portuguese).

I Have A Pet

This is my cat Fifty Shady (2014), who came along from Cambodia.

Projects I currently work on

  1. Republishing every post and photo of the Letmestayforaday.com-website. Like literally going through every post and editing every photo to a new and better system that can keep things fresh and safe for another 20 years.
  2. The Quiet Reader, an online literary magazine that I founded in 2020. Revamped and relaunched last Spring with a new edition released this December 2024.
  3. Expedition Kilimanjaro, the tour company I have been running since 2008. Yes, that’s for over 16 years and I can’t stop telling people to get up that mountain themselves. Now in 4 different languages.
  4. Writing Als het vuur gedoofd is (Extinguished), a Dutch novel writing project.
  5. On the former website of The Flicks Community Movie House, which I ran from 3 locations in the Cambodian capital for 12 years, I still post recommended movies for fans of the better movies. Previously including download links, but that’s become highly illegal nowadays :-p

Watching

Movies: The last movie I watched: Here.
Series: Lioness, Sweet Pea and Black Doves

Reading

My Goodreads keeps track of what my Kindle has been going through lately.

Bucket list

Done.

Social here:

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