Short Stories

Saturday 8th January 2022. Our dear friend, Bal Krishna, is dead. Bal just made it into the new year, before dying in the evening of the first day of 2022 …

Saturday, 1st January 2022. As early as 1883, long before the foundation of the European Union, a train connected France, Germany, Austria and Yougoslavia with Turkey: the Orient Express. Its …

Saturday 25th December 2021. Despite being a more environmentally-friendly alternative to airlines and road transport, Europe’s rail networks are underused. Today, a unified, European cross-border train network is more a …

Saturday, the 18th dezember 2021. 2021 has been proclaimed as the “Year of the Railway” by the European Commission. A „Europe Express“ trip taking in 100 cities and towns between …

Saturday 4th December 2021. Careful! This story is only suitable for animals of the species homo sapiens able to read freely and think for themselves, who have some interest in …

Saturday 27th November 2021. When winter arrives in the Monchique mountains, all life slows down a little, and the first rains turn the soil humid. Every year, at exactly this …

Saturday 20th November 2021.   Scrambling across a pile of waste one man asks another: do you remember the times when we were kids and had nothing to worry about? …

Saturday 13th November 2021. The water of the oceans, our way of life on a sailing boat, as well as the problems we all share connect us sailors, whether aboard …

Saturday 6th November 2021. The global sailing community is something very special indeed. Surrendering yourself completely to all winds and weathers that sailors are dependent on for survival requires a …

Saturday 30th October 2021. Who determines our future? ECO123 accompanies interesting people on their journeys and puts their ideas up for discussion. Round-the-world sailor Boris Herrmann starts his book on …