Steven Barbaglia has a Christiania tricycle which is used daily to transport his two daughters to school. 1) My favourite “secret place” in London is… There is a little garden on the back of St Paul’s church in Covent Garden. I discovered it when attending a concert in the church. Great spot for a quiet moment away from the West End crowds. 2) Yesterday I learned from my children that … How to smile when something has gone very wrong. Often my two-year-old daughter smiles [...]

Josh Parker, who runs a gardening business with a couple of Christianias, comments on the story about the new very accurate European GPS system My friend James works for the European Space Agency in Darmstat, and he says that they had to change their constitution to enable them to build it as their previous constitution prevented them from undertaking “defence” work. Clearly, as the NRA keep pointing out, ”guns don’t kill people, people do” however, you need to ask yourself why anyone with the money [...]

Mikael Colville: This bicycle ride thing is rather foreign in Copenhagen. During the activism of the 1970′s and 1980′s there were massive rides by citizens demanding safe infrastructure but it’s been awhile. I was looking forward to seeing how Copenhageners reacted to a large, slow-moving group of people on bicycles blocking the early evening traffic. There were people who stopped to look at the spectacle, but most of them were on foot or leaning out of windows. They were smiling, as a rule. If you [...]