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New Year, New Hopes

by Dana Marin | Jan 2, 2022 | All Photos, Lifestyle | 0

Welcome to 2022! The rain is pouring down on my window while I watch “The Gardener’s...

Reset Days: We All Need Them

by Dana Marin | Jul 13, 2021 | Lifestyle, Thoughts | 0

Reset days are something I have implemented in my life for over a year, after I discovered this...

Change, Challenges and Going Out of My Comfort Zone

by Dana Marin | May 8, 2021 | All Photos, Thoughts | 0

Life has been busy lately. The good kind of busy, but it still brought me to a point where I had...

New Beginnings: Changing My Life and My Career

by Dana Marin | Jan 23, 2021 | All Photos, Thoughts | 2

There comes a time in one’s life when change cannot be postponed anymore. A moment to end...

Reflections on My Move to Alkmaar, Nine Months On

by Dana Marin | Sep 16, 2020 | All Photos, Thoughts | 4

The trees on the Oudegracht are turning yellow. This view reminds me of the first time I came to...

Life in the Time of Coronavirus (1)

by Dana Marin | Apr 10, 2020 | All Photos, People and Stories | 0

This is the fourth week of lockdown in the Netherlands. By this time, we managed to get used to...

The Slow Pace of Life in a Small City

by Dana Marin | Mar 7, 2020 | All Photos, Lifestyle | 0

It’s been three months since I moved to Alkmaar and I’m congratulating myself for this...

Big News: I’m Moving Out of Amsterdam!

by Dana Marin | Dec 17, 2019 | All Photos, Thoughts | 4

This December I’m celebrating nine years of living in Amsterdam. And I will celebrate them...

Amsterdam Noord: NDSM Wharf

by Dana Marin | Jun 23, 2018 | All Photos, Amsterdam | 0

I like this former shipyard in Amsterdam Noord. With its industrial look — repurposed cranes...

Personal development: experimenting with life coaching

by Dana Marin | May 9, 2017 | All Photos, Lifestyle | 0

Our lives are permanently changing and we are changing day after day, year after year. I know I am not the only one who feels as if their life took turns and changed directions that we didn’t necessarily want, or choose....

Six years of living in Amsterdam (and counting)

by Dana Marin | Dec 15, 2016 | All Photos, Thoughts | 12

It’s been six years since I left my home country, Romania, on a very early and foggy morning, with a big suitcase and a small cat, and a crazy heart mixed with joy, hope, and worry. It was a December day that happened to...

Beautiful autumn in Amsterdam

by Dana Marin | Nov 19, 2016 | All Photos, Amsterdam | 0

This year I had the feeling that the autumn lasted longer than usual. Or that I had more time to contemplate its beauty, to observe the subtle changes in the colours from one day to another. Amsterdam is very beautiful in...