Diary of a Gen Z Student: Glamping and foraging for flat whites

"I went with my sister. Just two technology-addicted girls looking for some time away from Instagram. Our phones never actually lost 5G, but we did manage to turn them off for a few hours at one point."

Trinity College student and Irish Examiner columnist Jane Cowan photographed at her home in Dunshaughlin, County Meath. Photo: Barry Cronin

I grew up in a house beside my grandparents’ farm. 

It was a nice place to be reared: Ladybird-hunting on dry summer days; trawling through the fields to pick blackberries in autumn; hoping that you might get to bottle-feed a calf in the spring.