Before we proceed further in developing the project, maybe we should tell something more about us and how we arrived here.
We are in the middle of our forties and our wonderful daughter is just starting her middle school, our present hometown is Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
I am Giuseppe, better known as Beppe, an Italian engineer married to Natasja a Dutch Logistic Manager and we both work for the same company in the oil & gas business.
Scuba diving is the family passion. I am a PADI Open Water Instructor, Natasja is PADI Divemaster and our daughter is PADI Junior Open Water Diver on her way to Advance. We dive all year around basically everywhere possible, including cold and low visibility waters because it is being underwater what really matters.
In the last 20 years, our working commitment has been very intense and in particular I have been travelling around the globe almost constantly like a real globetrotter.
Our job provided us the means to enjoy life by great holidays, top gourmet dinners, shopping, a big house, basically everything we desired and even more.
We had the great opportunity to visit but also live in many places... Maderia, Singapore, Bahamas, Jakarta, New York, Reykjavik, Curacao,...
But the more we were enjoying life, the more we were working to enjoy it even more...and a vicious circle started.
At a certain point, somehow we started to feel that something was not correct.
Slowly, we began to wonder why we had to consume so much to enjoy life during the little time left free from work, the more we were thinking about it the less sense it was making.
