Ep 18- Georgina speaks to Amsterdam-based digital marketeer, traveller and surfer Thessa Plevier

Thessa lives in Amsterdam and works as a digital marketeer. She’s also a keen traveller and surfer. I wanted to talk to her about how the pandemic had impacted her life in Amsterdam. From photos on social media it looked like life was good full holidays and lots of fun. However, there was one photo of her with her Dad that caught my attention and made me realise that life in Amsterdam had not been as carefree as I’d thought.

Early on in the conversation it is clear that lockdown life in Amsterdam was just as hard as everywhere else. As Thessa says she didn’t put everything on social media! The Netherlands had a curfew of 9pm and then 10pm until the end of April.  This means that you see a stream of people biking home as fast as possible just before ‘night clock’ to avoid getting a €95 fine.

Thessa also talks about how hard it was working from home with limited interaction with people. How in the winter when it got dark early, and the weather was ‘shitty’ it felt like ‘groundhog day’. It makes sense then that when she was allowed to travel to Tenerife on a surfing holiday she jumped. She talks about how freeing it was to go to the beach and rent a board. Returning from Tenerife to hail and cold weather was hard but Thessa found ways to look after herself and focussed on activities that gave her joy such as cycling and running.

As Thessa says ‘she’s a positive person’ and that is clear even when she talks about having to change jobs in lockdown and embracing her Dad for the first time in months wearing an old festival waterproof poncho on backwards. Here’s hoping she got to wear her high heels at her first party with ‘more than four people’ a few weeks after we spoke. The interview was recorded on Wednesday 9th June @ 5pm CEST.

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