27th October 2015
Guest Blog: A visit to Japan
In our first Guest Blog, Sarah Parsons of consulting business Japan in Perspective talks about her upcoming Satogaeri Project visit to Gunma as part of the …
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4th December 2014
It’s Nikolaus time again – do you have clean shoes?
How clean are your shoes? If the answer is ‘not very’, you need to get cleaning because St Nikolaus is coming. In Germany, on the …
13th September 2014
Celebrating thirty years
No, it’s not how long I’ve been married, the number of years that Optima has existed or, unfortunately, my age! It’s the thirtieth anniversary of …
4th September 2014
European Day of Languages is coming!
Did you know there are between 6000 and 7000 languages in the world; spoken by 7 billion people divided into 189 independent states? There are …
4th September 2014
First day of school
My youngest daughter starts primary school this week. As I was labelling her many items of uniform earlier this week, I started to reminisce about …
23rd March 2013
Who’s that Eostre hare? It’s an Easter tradition
Legend tells of the Saxon goddess Eostre, who found a wounded bird when she was out walking through the English countryside. The bird could not …
