Host-cation

How I fell in love with the British countryside

Visit to Oxford. Photo by author.

I love hosting. And in the last couple of months, I had the luck of having my brother and two of my best friends come over to the UK. Their plan was to spend some time with me and ‘visit London’.

‘Great’, I thought — but we don’t live in London really. And in fact, since we moved from Germany to the UK five years ago, we have spent more…