People tend to notice Nancy the way they notice the first properly sunny day of spring: suddenly, gratefully, and with an involuntary improvement in mood. She is thirty, curvy, 170 cm, with long golden blonde hair and blue eyes, and she carries her own weather with her, which in this city is a superpower worth booking on its own merits.
Hers is an outdoor soul on an indoor schedule. Swimming is the constant, early lengths most mornings, a habit she shares with Violetta, our other dedicated swimmer. Road trips are the escape valve, the kind planned loosely around one good lunch. And sushi is the reward, chosen with the seriousness other people reserve for wine lists; she and Thea could talk Japanese menus until the kitchen closes. The car playlist is hers by treaty and non-negotiable.
What makes her company work is that nothing about it is effortful. She is energetic without being exhausting, easygoing without being vague, and she has the gift of making a first meeting feel like the fourth. Conversation with Nancy goes wherever it wants and always seems to arrive somewhere warm. She has a talent for the comfortable silence too, the kind that happens on good drives, when the scenery does the talking and nobody competes with it.
Her address is in Oud-Zuid, convenient to the park, the museum quarter and the hotels between them. Arranging an evening takes one WhatsApp message and costs from €180 per hour, with longer plans quoted upfront before you confirm. Nothing is filed, nothing follows you home, and the only lasting effect of her company is the suspicious frequency with which you will find yourself checking flight prices to somewhere coastal. Daytime plans suit her as well as evenings.