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I moved from the Netherlands to Switzerland in August 2006, and I've been working at Google for
about 18 years now. I have had the most wonderful time so far! In the Summer of 2024, I decided to
take a little break. Thanks to the awesome support of my manager and the teams I work with, my
request for a Sabbatical was approved and the date set for the 29th of July through the 3rd of
November, just over three months of time off.

If you follow on any form of social, you'll know that I like to write. My website 
[[IPng.ch](https://ipng.ch/s/articles/)] is full of nerdy stories. But this website serves a
different purpose. Because a sabbatical is something that not many people have the privilege to be
able to do, and because I plan on doing only one of these in my life, I've decided to mark my
travels with a little story and some pictures of every day of my time off.
