It was well and truly autumn when I got back from my latest trip. While I was recovering and with only a few days to go before my departure, we visited more relatives – both living and no longer with us, a gallery and at least one more castle. Despite all those cakes, big meals with lots of potatoes and spätzle, and all the chocolate we got at the Ritter Sport Chocolate Factory, I still managed to lose weight in Germany. I attribute this at least in part to the fact that that rarely a day went by without some kind of walk. Getting ready for a Warmer Future One of our early walks was to my cousin’s old “School’ that is, the Braike Campus of the University of Nürtingen und Gaislingen‘s School of Economy and the Environment , where students were experimenting with sustainable landscape design and climate change resilient plants. As part of their practical work for degrees in Landscape Architecture they had created a pleasant park with sections devoted to plants that thrive with ...
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