Tuesday 25th June I say my goodbye’s to Saskia, Malte has already left for Hamburg (at 4am!) and the children have gone to school and I’m off into my hire car with google maps to head for the Autobahn. A […]

Thursday 20th June A very short walk from the forester’s bunk house and I arrive at the offices of the Harz Mountains National Park. Ole, Lilli and I share a lovely breakfast together and then it’s down to work but […]

Sunday 16th June (pm) Gradually, everyone starts to gather together for the ‘Ice Breaker’ evening to open the conference. It feels rather like a meeting of old friends as I catch up with several of the people I have already […]

Wednesday 12th June (am) A twenty minute walk from the hotel and I arrive at the FVA office to meet Dr Micha Herdtfelder. As with all good meetings we start in the kitchen with a cup of coffee, clearly coffee […]

Friday 7th June A short walk from the Gasthaus and I arrive at the Institute, met by a bubbly and enthusiastic Dr Carsten Nowak. Carsten rather reminds me of an old GP of mine (Dr Gage) as he leaps eagerly […]

Thursday 6th June I was driven to the BUND offices in Mainz by the Managing Director of the SNU, Jochen Krebuhl, who was at the lynx release. Turns out we both attended Bangor University within a few years of each […]

Monday 3rd June – The Project begins I’m picked up from Kaiserslautern station car park by Annina Prussing, a member of the LIFE Luchs team and driven to the SNU offices in Trippstadt. Annina spends the morning explaining as much […]

Saturday 1st June 2019 Bags packed and off to Manchester Airport to catch my evening flight to Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg, an airport on the Swiss/French border. Unfortunately, my blog doesn’t start with the standard selfie out of the airport window with the […]