I am an emotion researcher and research methods lecturer at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands. My work involves researching and teaching about the ways that holiday travel makes people happy and improves their lives. I also make things that fly. After early childhood in the pan-European cultural nexus of Bratislava, Czechoslovakia and living transatlantically for two decades after the Velvet Revolution, I have returned to Europe and currently live in the Netherlands.