“Today it is snowing in China”. Remembering his Dutch childhood, the sailor Jan Jansz Weltevree (1595 – not known), said this expression was used by the old people when the weather was foggy. The historian Timothy Brooke uses this example to put in relief the fact that we are globally interconnected, like the last pandemic dramatically reminded us.

More than ever, we need curious people. People who want to travel, learn languages, and discover new countries.

Curious enough to realize that we are in the same boat.