I would like you to meet someone. Honestly, the truth is I don’t know their name but this boy is a Samburu cowherd who lives in the middle of Africa. He is the breadwinner of the family and works alone every day with his herd of cows, each of which weighs almost ten times more…
I have always kept scrapbooks of my holidays. The first one I created was when I was five years old, when I cycled with my family from Passau to Vienna. Of course, being only five this book is made up completely of pictures cut from tourist leaflets I collected on the journey. On the last…
After our camper roadtrip through Western Canada, it was time to explore a part of Vancouver Island. We were tired of the many kilometers we had already traveled with the camper, but were still looking forward to this new and final chapter of our journey. Vancouver Island is full of nature. It has one of…
I love being next to the ocean. I love being on the ocean. But I have a mortal fear of being in the ocean. It’s dark and brooding. There are monsters, myths, and the shadows of unknown terrors. Of all those who go into it, slightly fewer come out of it. Victoria, British Columbia, has…
As John Muir put it so succinctly “in every walk in nature one receives far more than he seeks.” People love being outside, enjoying what nature has to offer – simply being in the fresh air in your neighborhood park for a short while does wonders to lift your spirits, photographers, bird watchers, naturalists, hikers,…