If it’s a Bank Holiday weekend, it must be time to hit the road. Ever since I started work I’ve been a firm believer that you…
In 1982, the Japanese government introduced a health initiative called shinrin-yoku — which translates as forest…
We can all see how it would happen: you want to prove you can chop wood faster than your brother…
Of course the children were nervous. They were starting a new school where they knew nobody and would be taught in Basque. So it…
Before we got here, a lot of people mentioned that it rained in San Sebastian. That’s OK, I thought…
Put it down to me being Libra, or a middle child, or just the way I’m made, but I’ve never been the best at making…
Going on a big adventure is a little bit like doing DIY. All you really want is the wall painted a new colour, but you know…
San Sebastian — it’s got one of the best city beaches in the world and a gastronomic culture that draws people from…
Basque is not an easy language. It doesn’t look like other European languages with its clusters of ‘t’s and ‘x’s and frequent ‘k’s. It’s not related to other languages — not any, anywhere — and it doesn’t sound like other languages: where else does ‘es’ means ‘no’?