I'm going the hortus up: I want to visit more botanical gardens and write more, so I'm combining them so one becomes a reason to do the other. In May, I visited two gardens in Rotterdam: Kralingen and Trompenburg, which formed a neat contrast between them.

In October of last year I visited the Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam. This was an almost religious experience, so naturally it took me a year to visit another garden like it. I'm going to pick up the pace a bit.