Reading years ago that the majority of us end our lives within 30 km of where we were born, I remember thinking: Not me. But after meeting Margareta Weisser, who knows.
After spending much of her life in Asia, she is relocating to the town in Germany's Black Forest where she was born. "I've always been a bit of a gypsy," she said in early April, preparing to leave Japan. "But I also knew it wouldn't be forever. So I've rented a flat in Schramberg. I'm ready to start again."
Since 1992, she has been on "unpaid leave" from the German Foreign Service, operating as a development coworker under Germany's development law, promoting grassroots projects in nine Asian countries among indigenous tribes.