The key to hitching in West Germany, as one quickly learned, was the free booklet that you could pick up at any autobahn service station. Specifically, it was the center two pages. You could pull them out and ditch the rest. Those pages opened out into a map of the West German autobahn system and… Continue reading Life’s Lessons on the road: hitch-hiking in West Germany
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(Both) Battles of Breitenfeld – a day’s walk near Leipzig
It is a macabre thought that in these days of GIS and databases, someone could probably come up with a map of Europe – colour-coded by the amount of human lives lost in battles over the past score of centuries or so. I wonder what it might tell us. Leipzig is one of those German… Continue reading (Both) Battles of Breitenfeld – a day’s walk near Leipzig
Traditional Christmas in Hamburg
Late 1984, I was booted out of Denmark and hit the next ferry to Puttgarden (this was a condition of the local cops when they gave my passport back), then hitched my way south through the mist-swathed Northern German Plain towards Hamburg. Being the old-days, East Germany was nearby and I could hear the eerie sounds… Continue reading Traditional Christmas in Hamburg