Exploring London and Beyond
Child of the Mountains What a difference a year makes… We are approaching the ominous summer of 2020, the summer of COVID-19, prolonged travel bans and cancellations. Faced with uncertainty, I can at least look back at my hut-to-hut trip in Austria in the summer of 2019, when the world was still on the move …
At the time of writing, a great part of the world is under lockdown but imaginary travel is still allowed. So is the planning for a travel bucket list from the comfort of one’s home, or in my case, from the comfort of the kitchen. While bookshops were still open, I picked up a one-page-a-day …
Kopfkino is one of my favourite German expressions and loosely translates as “head cinema.” It implies the possibility of mental rather than physical travel. All it takes is to close the eyes and imagine the impossible, implausible and unimaginable. What better activity while self-distancing or self-isolating in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic? Travel differently …