Tag Archives: Hannover
The great winter escape
🇬🇧 (That we escaped from too soon) ☃️ You know that feeling when you check out of a hotel at 10am and then watch from the taxi as they start handing out free champagne in the lobby at 10:15? That’s … Continue reading
Trip to Germany for Xmas
🎄The Suitcase That Knew Better Far too early really. So early, in fact, that even the alarm clock seemed to apologize when it went off at 4:45 a.m. But there are moments in life when sleep must be sacrificed on … Continue reading
77 Days Till Christmas 🇬🇧
🇬🇧 or the art of good intentions This morning, my inbox greeted me with an email from my favourite Belgian comic book shop — the one that always seems to know exactly when to remind me of things I’m trying … Continue reading
The morning I time-traveled to the summer of 2000
🇬🇧 A few weeks ago, I treated myself to a warm bath of nostalgia by writing about the anniversary of Expo 2000 in Hannover — that quirky global village of ideas, pavilions, and passport stamps. Since then, one very specific … Continue reading
25 Years since Expo 2000
🇬🇧 Still hungover from the fun? On June 1st, 2000, Hannover did something a bit outrageous: it opened its gates to the World Expo 2000, and the world wasn’t quite sure what to think. “What is this?” people asked. “A … Continue reading
The week that was 49-2024 🇬🇧
The Scorpion’s symphonie 🇬🇧🇩🇪
June and summer 🇬🇧🇫🇷
Cycling
This year’s Global Bicycle Index looked at 90 cities around the world and ranked them based on loads of factors, from bike lanes and rates of bike theft to the number of days of ‘cyclable’ weather per year. I am … Continue reading
I do it my way 