Reflecting on the year 2025

This year I left my home country (the Netherlands), and travelled to Germany and Belgium. I hiked the full length or parts of two long distance trails. Those trails are the Westerbork trail and the Marskramer trail. I also hiked parts of one local trail called the Utrecht trail.

I visited two parks. I went to the Utrechtse Heuvelrug National Park several times. I enjoyed the hills and forests there. I also went to Les Deux Ourthes Natural Park in Belgium. That park has beautiful rivers and woods.

Q1

Still worked as a Data Engineer but in Q2 I am back as just a Software Engineer. Doing some iOS work and Flutter work. I picked up the pace in hiking the Westerbork trail.

Q2

Finished the Westerbork trail. Worked on my first big flutter project at work. It was very stressful, the project did not go as expected, stressed a lot, eat a lot, gained the 30kg back I lost in Q3 last year.

Q3

Focused on reading books and the Bible. Also created some automations for this blog, for example creating og images with Shortcuts (the app). Needed to chill for a bit and let the stressful period end, had good talks with work about it.

Q4

Starting to look forward again. Started walking the Utrecht path. Went on a company trip to the Ardennes which was fun.

Goals of 2025 ↗

I did not buy a house. The housing market in the Netherlands is very hard right now. I did reach many of the side goals. I wrote 100 posts. I took more photos, especially during hikes. I also took posts from old blogs and published them again here.

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