28 Nov Away but close

Mexico, the starting point of our journey, sits on the other side of the globe, about 9200 kilometers from Amsterdam. This feels like being really far away! But we want to stay close to the people we love. We don’t want to miss out on some of the exciting things you are experiencing and doing, we will be away but we are always close. We have figured out how we can stay in touch with our family: to our sister and brothers, brothers and sisters-in-law and see how our first nephew Milan grows and develops, how we can be available for our clients, since business has to continue as usual. And where would we be without our friends?

We have come up with a number of channels to stay connected with the ones we love and miss while we are traveling and working abroad that we will discuss in this post. Of course there is the website you are reading right now, which will soon have posts in Dutch and Spanish as well (zeker wel!). We love it when you leave a message for us on our blogposts. We always read those with a lot of love. But there are some other ways to reach us when we are gone:

Facebook, Twitter, Skype and email
Both Steven and me have a Facebook page on which we post regularly, in particular about experiences which we personally want to share. You can also expect regular updates on our twitter accounts @dianavermeij and @szwerink. We both have a Skype account to call via the Internet. You can reach me, Diana via the username dianavermeij on Skype. Steven can be reached on Skype with his username deschoen (weirdest nickname right? Don’t ask…). Look up our names in Skype and add us as a contact. After adding us as a contact, you can see when we are online on Skype and call us if you want to catch up or ask us a question. Sending us an old style email is still possible too 😉 Write to diana.vermeij at gmail dot com or szwerink at gmail dot com.

Phone
We are taking our mobile phones with our current Dutch cell phone numbers. Whenever you need us, send us a text message and we will reply to that. Calling us on our Dutch phone numbers is expensive. We have found a way to make that cheaper! Since last week, we have a Mexican cell phone number: 0052  5545146581. We have found a service called Tele0900, which lets you call our Mexican phone number for 0.13 euro cents a minute. Calling to a Mexican landline is even cheaper (0.06 euro cents). That landline number will be added to this post later when we are physically in Mexico. So to use these fees from the Netherlands do the following:

Dial: 0900-9640 then press 0052  5545146581 and then press #.
To end the call, press ##

Internet access