Damien Enright: Fate of our planet and our children is in human hands

'It is my ardent hope that the world leaders attending this conference will find solutions to save this wondrous planet for them.'

Autumn light in Bohemia in Czech Republic, a land of lakes and trees. A lake 5 minutes from the main square of Ceske Budejovice. "Earth hath not anything to show more fair..."

READERS may be surprised to learn that the Czech Republic in late October may be a better option for sustaining a hard-won Irish suntan than the October isles of Greece.

But the strength of the sun is incidental; it’s the magic it brings to the townscape and the parks, lakes and the rivers that are everywhere in and around this Czech town that intrigues me. My wife and I are in Ceske Budejovice in Bohemia to visit my son’s family and, especially, to meet our two-year-old granddaughter who, because of the pandemic, we haven’t been able to meet until now. The two boys, with their father, visited us in west Cork in June.