Public Service Announcement

Dear HMS readers,

Yesterday I left, my now former residence, in Utrecht to begin a two-month backpacking journey with my pal Jessica. This morning I woke up on a night train in Copenhagen. The remaining planned are: Hamburg, Berlin, Prague, Budapest, Vienna, Salzburg, Munich, Padua, Bologna, Milan, Athens, Skoura, Soverato, Supino, Rome and London. Some [...]

Since Archie Gemmill scored against Holland in 1978…

Nationalistic sports events always reminds me of my favourite bit of “Brave New World.” During the orgy, which was the fashion of the time, Bernard chants along in lip service. He wants to be lost and completely devoted the moment but finds himself on the outside, pretending to be as entranced as [...]

Gold in the air of summer

The experience of going to and being in Bergen, the second biggest Norwegian city and gateway to the western fjords, made me yearn for the past–my childhood and the kind I’ve only known in movies and books. The six-hour train ride from Oslo to Bergen was more amazing than enthusiastic endorsements from anyone I talked [...]