COFFEE Getting together for coffee and a friendly chat was just one of the things we had to miss out on this past year. With that in mind, we asked you who’s the first person you’d want to sit down for a coffee with.
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MICLE JALIENS (66)
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND
TAX OFFICE IN ROTTERDAM
PHOTOGRAPHY Ruben Stam
SASHA VAN HOORN (20)
CITY OF ROTTERDAM
‘I think it would be really wonderful to
‘Finally this winter I’ll be able to visit
‘That’s an easy one for me: with my
go for coffee with the Antillean-born
my parents in Mozambique. The only
co-workers chatting around the office
artist Anton Vrede. He’s lived in Rot-
downside is I won’t see my best friend
coffee machine. We’ve all been working
terdam for years and his work is very in-
Sterre for a longer time. Because of so-
from home for months, and having that
TEXT Céline Boute
AAT BRAND (66)
tercultural. That’s probably to do with
cial distancing, it’s been a while. Spend-
moment to chat over coffee is some-
his background, but it makes me curi-
ing a few hours to catch up over a cup of
thing I really miss. When we have that
ous about what inspires him. I wager it
hot cocoa is high on my list.’
back, I’ll be a happy man.’
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would be a fascinating conversation.’