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 …

The Wadden Sea: beneath the surface

Flat, squelching, brown mud stretches out as far as the eye can see. Intermittently, spurts of water squirt from thousands of small mounds that dot the surface. Battered banks of mussels and oysters lie scattered around, barraged by hungry gulls and oyster-catchers who leave shell graveyards in their wake. In 6 hours, this obscure scene …

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 …

A little bit of culture (shock)

It's just about one month into my time in Germany, and it really has flown past. I have lived in Berlin, visited Nuremberg and Bremen and now I'm sitting at the southern tip of Deutschland's northernmost island (Sylt). So, I thought that rather than write about the ins and outs of each place I'd rather …