A year comes to an end - and what a year it was!

The year 2020 is drawing to a close and that’s a good thing,‘ some will think, and you know what – we think so too.

If someone had predicted a year ago what we would experience this year, we would have called them crazy: worldwide border closures, lockdowns, overwhelmed hospitals, mandatory masks, aid packages, short-time work, working from home, homeschooling, relaxations, new normality, burgeoning hope, tussles over competence, more lockdowns, disease, deaths, development of vaccines, hope …

Hope for 2021. The year that will begin as 2020 ended, as described above, will end better.
In the near future, we will once again be able to live freely and healthily, visit our parents without worrying, meet as many friends as we want, enjoy vacations near and far, meet our business friends all over the world, sit together in bars, beer gardens and restaurants until late at night, attend football matches and rock concerts, do sport together, drink mulled wine with neighbors without a guilty conscience, attend church services at Christmas, sing and make music together. We will celebrate life! We will reclaim our planning confidence and set our sights on new goals … and we will prove that this world of ours still exists!

But our thoughts are also with those who will not get to experience this anymore. Who have lost their fight against diseases and the virus, or are fighting it right now, or are losing it at this very moment. Especially that which began with the Christmas story must not make us indifferent.

We wish you a blessed Christmas in the company of your loved ones – stay healthy, stay cautious, stay optimistic.

Yours, Grit and Torsten Hoffmann and the whole BWH team