Learning to write in the tropics

Florence Nightingale has been creeping into the corner of my eye since the first time I visited Dusseldorf back in 2013. I was visiting my brother's brother-in-law who lived at the time in Kaiserswert, once a village now a suburb of Dusseldorf.  It also happens to be the place where Nightingale trained as a nurse. On that first visit David took me to see her bedroom, which is laid out museum-like in the corner of a still functioning hospital. As with so many other small mementos of historical moments that first year in Germany this visit left me with a sense of awe and a happiness at being able to see places one usually only hears about.  Fastforward to 2020 and corona-style seminars. The one positive thing of 2020 has been the availability of zoom seminars from all corners of the globe, time differences permitting. Through one of these I met an American midwife settled in Suffolk, England. When she found out my research into German midwifery she very excitedly told me of a pr...