This year, International Women’s Day (March 8) fell on a Monday, which was excellent because Berlin celebrates it as a public holiday. Berlin is, believe it or not, the only state in Germany that stipulates Women’s Day as a bank holiday. Then again, it’s also the state with the lowest number of public holidays in […]
This post isn’t strictly about hiking, walking, jogging or cycling, but since I often perform these activities against trees as a backdrop, writing about these magnificent creatures surely isn’t completely off-topic. The initial trigger for this post was a book by Peter Wohlleben that I recently completed, called The Hidden Life of Trees. In fact, […]