Writer · Builder · Wanderer
I write, I build, and I move around a bit. Four continents so far, a baby born in Greece, and software shipped from South-East Asia. If you want the longer version, it's here.
Read My StorySteffen and I met in Dresden, where I was living at the time. He'd just come back from Barbados and was home visiting his parents, and the rest of my carefully arranged plans didn't stand much of a chance.
We started travelling almost immediately: the Czech Republic, Finland, Switzerland, Italy, grabbing long weekends whenever we could. I'd only just moved into my flat, but it was clear neither of us had much talent for staying put.
On one of our very first dates, we went boofen in Saxon Switzerland National Park, the local habit of sleeping under the rocks rather than paying for a bed. We slept in a cave in the middle of a snowy January, and it turned out we were both the sort of people who think that counts as a good time.
Not long after, we made travel the full-time plan and set off around the world. For the next two years we lived as digital nomads, working from airports and cafés and, once, a lagoon in Laos, romantic, chaotic, exhausting, and right for who we were then.
I found out I was pregnant in Georgia (the country), not exactly part of the plan, and our nomadic routine stopped feeling quite as workable. We were tired in a way coffee didn't touch, so we started looking for somewhere we could actually call home.
At the time we were in Tbilisi, which we weren't enjoying much. It felt loud, unfriendly, and cold, and the dog crap lining the streets of Vake was doing nothing for my morning sickness. In the end, we sat down and made a list of what we wanted in a home, and we kept circling back to Greece.
We landed in Greece intending to head for the Peloponnese, but detoured to this island called Evia, which we'd never heard of, to view a property. The house was right on the sea with a garden filled with olive and lemon trees outside, which is exactly the sort of thing that makes you forget you're meant to be careful. We pretended to inspect it properly, agreed almost immediately, and moved in the next day. It was either decisive or mostly vibes, if we're honest.
A few months later, our boy was born, and it changed everything. In Greece, the importance of family shows up in the small stuff, including the language: there are greetings for every time of day and season, and a frankly impressive number of ways to congratulate you on a pregnancy or a new baby. We heard them constantly from neighbours and strangers alike. It wasn't long before half the island seemed to know his name.
But once the initial chaos of new parenthood began to settle into something more manageable, another familiar feeling crept back in: restlessness.
"Our boy was the gift we never knew we wanted."
We left Greece because, much as we loved its beauty, life there had started to feel a bit too slow, too quiet, too peaceful for the stage we were in. Once we had a family, we found ourselves wanting something different around us: a little more energy, more variety, and more going on day to day.
After a lot of research, Malaysia kept coming out on top. It seemed to offer what we felt we were missing: a proper mix of cultures, a country moving quickly, and plenty happening, but without the full-on chaos that can make parts of South-East Asia feel like hard work.
When we arrived in Penang, it was exactly what we'd hoped for. We found our people, fell into the routines of daily life faster than expected, and it just worked. For us, it feels like the perfect place to raise a little one.
After Heinz was born, Steffen and I started building things together. Since then, we've worked on an eclectic mix of projects: from NeuroMark, an intelligent document processing tool, to Stimna, a meeting summariser, to sustainable nomad trousers made in Ghana.
Steffen handles the technical side; I build the websites, help shape the marketing, and work out how to bring the ideas into the world. These days, most of our conversations revolve around either AI or parenting, which is probably how an AI-for-parents blog has ended up on the (ever-growing) list.
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