Newsletter Archive
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Cloudy with Sunny Spells
November is about as light on its feet as a grandfather clock, and about as cheerful as Büchner’s Woyzeck. Widely regarded as the greyest and gloomiest month of the year, it lives...
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Just a Moment!
“Onward, onward, always on the run. Onward, as though it were coming to catch him,” wrote Annette von Droste-Hülshoff in her poem The Boy in the Moor. Our moor? The streets we...
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A Greek Episode
When the Galanólefki, the Greek flag, is flying, you know you are in good hands. Filoxenia – hospitality – culture and cuisine can be found even on the smallest island. In Athens,...
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Stay in touch
In northern Germany, ‘Na?’ and ‘Nö.’ can already count as a proper conversation. But even in the rest of the country – indeed, throughout Europe – people are talking to one another...
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Celebrations
There are probably as many recipes for a successful party as there are for potato salad. New York interior designer Elsie de Wolfe recommended “more men than women, cold drinks and French...
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Water Games
The light is changing. The sun slips behind the majestic pines a little earlier each evening. But summer is far from over: at the bagni, parasols and sun loungers are still lined...
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Make the most of what you have
As children, we learn about restrictions: either ice cream or fizzy drink, the merry-go-round or the tin-tossing game, the piano or the violin. As adults, we are free to decide for ourselves...
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The Joy of Animals
"I got so much flea market!" a little girl exclaims, proudly holding up a battered toy car. She has spent a few cents of her pocket money on it and now happily...
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Summer Adagio
Sundays have a rhythm of their own and a familiar ritual: lingering over breakfast, idling away the morning in the garden with a book or newspaper, meeting friends for brunch, spending hours...
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Fabulous summer nights
Girls in swimsuits and boys in football shirts run past the fountain after a long summer’s day, dipping their feet into the water one last time with a giggle. Someone is having...
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The beginning is half the battle
Turning towards beauty is a form of resistance, a quiet protest in a noisy world. That’s more or less what a recent concert review said. Indeed, we all too often focus on...
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Shifting Perspectives
The pursuit of beauty can be an act of resistance, a quiet protest in a noisy world. At least, that is how a recent concert review phrased it. And indeed, we too...
