A grandmother-grandson road trip to the Baltic Sea... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to Mushroom Picking, by Alexander McMaster above.
In 1944, my grandmother, known to me as Omi, was one year-old, living with her mother, brother and sister in a village near the German city of Königsberg on the Baltic Sea...
This essay appeared on the programme of April 12th - listen back here
