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Roula Khalaf, editor of the FT, selects her favorite stories in this weekly newsletter.
When thinking about the problem of spring trips this year, we take things in a slightly new direction, looking emotional trips instead of vacation. The people who created and presented in these stories were in search of something: inspiration, reconciliation, meeting, restoration or some kind of closure with the past.
Fiona Golfar never imagined as a girl that one day she would seek the citizenship of the country that once despised her family. In his piece about obtaining German nationality, She tells a story That takes her from the chocolate factory of her great -grandfather in the east of Berlin in 1921 to London, and through an extraordinary set of houses that find her standing out of the doors of the Berlin factory again. It was the children of Fiona who asked him to request a German passport after Brexit, because they wanted to work in Europe. With this came the concern, he realized that the country that once forced his family to flee could now be a source of opportunity. Despite being a very personal experience, Fiona’s story speaks of a much broader story that is especially relevant today.
Ben Markovits embarked on a bicycle trip to the Dales of Yorkshire earlier this year after completing his latest novel, The rest of our livesand to commemorate the two -year anniversary of its cancer remission. The walk, with her teenage son, celebrated many wins, especially the freedom to write a new chapter of her life. Your piece is an honest exam of the ups and downs that accompany an ambitious trip. One hopes that the beginning of an adventure compendium of father and state of Markovits around the Yorkshire hills.
What makes a country feel good? The World Happiness Report recently nominated Finland as the happiest place on Earth for the eighth time in so many years. We ask the writer Carolina Forsss with Helsinki headquarters to look at her compatriots, coffee shops and culture to Discover a lot why it could be. It can be just a matter of interpretation: happiness means different things for different nations. Or is it the country’s sauna habit that sends serotonin levels outside the scale?
I was lucky Visit the Patagonia last winterA vast region to horcajadas on Chile and Argentina that does not have a specific limit is often described as the loneliest place on Earth. I drove by a fraction of the Austral road, a road completed in 2003 that united remote communities through South Chile for the first time. However, despite this relatively new connection, Patagonia still feels disturbingly remote. He is majestic and inspiring; I found that I had an almost melancholic charm. It is not surprising that travelers are forced to explore their borders: it is a desert that seems to have no end.
In another place, the novelist Christopher Bollen enjoys A very personal odyssey Around the beloved hotel in New York, film director Wim Wenders talks about why locations have been the starting point for all their films. Wenders films are evocative, emotional and inspiring, so much that over the years I have followed in their steps around the world. I have marked Berlin, Hangzhou and Tokyo from the Wenders verification list, but he has still dreamed of seeing Paris, Texas and the Wuppertal of Pina Bausch.
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