Summer in the Netherlands. Sometimes it is extremely humid and cloudy, many times it rains, but there are these days that are just genuinely nice. On these days, regardless of any viruses, beaches are crowded. Ironically, the annual beach cleanup had been cancelled due to COVID-19. So instead, toolkits are handed out to encourage beachgoers…

Done my morning yoga, whistled at my parakeet, put on my slippers and took a cup of tea upstairs to my ‘office’. A very normal start of the day in these very abnormal times. I turn on the computer and work through my email. Almost every single reply is messaged to a person that I…