Can I tell you about one of the best spots and where I feel the most “Magz to the max” in Holland?
That sure has to be down the coast, a 30 minutes drive from Amsterdam.
Yesterday evening, after having worked for hours organizing for the next (currently super secret) stunt, doing some blogging and later some shopping, cleaning and other stuff I luckily won´t have to worry about in three weeks from now, I finally got to the beach with some friends. I needed the sea, to feel the sand between my toes and BREATH!

The part of the beach we went to was super crowded by people in a very celebratory mood and for a good reason: what is, in my opinion, the best beach bar in Holland had just opened for 2009! Yeehaa! It´s a place 40 meters away from the first little wave of the North Sea and its name Woodstock 69 tells you all about the atmosphere I hope, and if not you should sure come over and check out the vibe. Every year this place is completely built up and broken down using 80% of the same (recycled) materials. The interior, as well as the exterior has been fully designed to meet your every chill-out mood, as well as when you feel like a dancefloor-rocker or a campfire-starer.

No pretentiousness, no clothing rules, not so many rules at all actually… Just “come in and sea” as they say. I worked there during the summers of 2005 and 2006, just before I emigrated to Spain and at the end of last summer when I got back from Spain. These summers, these working shifts flying by, these inspiring people who aren´t aware of being inspiring, these cosmopolitan, crazy colleagues, these records they are playing, the spontaneous jamsessions… There might just be other bars in the world that look a lottle like it but the atmosphere of the place and the energy of the people are not only unique but authentic to the bone. That authenticy, the joy, openess and the feeling of freedom while making sure teamwise you give people the time of their lives, made me decide right there and then not to settle, jobwise, for less than the feeling I got when being there. Wherever, doing whatever.

There are some words and sentences said over the years that have left a lasting impression on me, or simply sound really clever and its nice to repeat them to others and try to sound just as inspiring, you hope, as the person who said them to you in the first place.
One of the sentences I remember is very simple, but effective and said to me by the owner of Woodstock last year when I was complaining about my current job back then in an office, being an account manager. He said: “If it doesn´t make you happy, don´t do it. Quit. Now. There is ALWAYS something else that you can do and you will find it when you quit putting effort into what you don´t like.”
So a month later I quit my job, I was looking for jobs in Australia to get as as close to that “Magz to the max”  feeling as possible, and the rest we now know: here I am, a finalist for, and read carefully now: “The Best Job in the World”!

Now you shout! Share your Best Spot wherever it is on this globe. In or close to nature? A certain village, house, park, garden, chair, couch, bar or car?… I can´t make it up for you, so please help me out! You never know, you might end up as a candidate for the “Next-Best Job in the World”!

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