An intern’s life on Sylt

Reflecting on my eight month internship on the German island of Sylt brings back a wealth of fond memories. I lived in a wonderful old house just a minute’s walk from a 42km long beach strewn with shells. In my free time I could wander for hours up and down this coast, looking for rarities …

Helgoland: the magic island

The word ‘Heligoland*’ sounds like a fictional place from a children’s story. It is in fact an island 46km off the German coastline, and undoubtedly one of the most unexpected highlights of my travels. For it is not only in name that Heligoland seems fictional. This 1 square kilometer piece of rock juts out of the …

Cooking for 20

10 June 2014 Germany has undergone a miraculous transformation in the last months. I look back to my first blog posts about uniform and grey Berlin (albeit coated in colourful graffiti) and realise now how much of that greyness is attributable to the season. And it was true, in winter everything was grey; the idea …