Oktoberfest in North America

by | Sep 1, 2023

Introduction Perhaps a bit surprisingly, annually there is at least one Oktoberfest event in almost every US state, and in several Canadian provinces. Most of the celebrations have bounced back from the covid pandemic years, when they had to close down. All across...

The School Trip

by | Mar 25, 2019 | Berlin, Daily life, History and culture

One chilly Friday evening a few weeks ago I found myself sitting in the middle of fifty British teenagers giving a talk. This was a group of students from my old school, over from Yorkshire on a school trip to Berlin, and my former teacher had asked me to talk to them...