These blog posts are about, or provide reference to, Germany.
A small army of these rather creepy cut-outs have recently cropped up around my area, clearly intended to enhance the mood of maudlin nostalgia which has been ebbing and flowing since the centenary of the start of the First World War in 2014. There are plans afoot for this to peak in a nationwide peal … More Lest We Forget
One thing I will say for the Scandis is they’re very organised and very conformist. Told to stay in line, wait, or drive at 50kph they mostly will. Our overnight ferry to Frederikshavn awoke us at 6.15 am, saying we would dock in an hour. We arrived five minutes later, and boats duly came alongside … More 26 hours in Denmark
This extraordinary edifice in the Antwerp docks stands for the uncomfortable accommodation of old and new you often find in Europe. Looking like a giant inter-galactic space bug trying to mate with a 19th century asylum, it seems to come from the same impulse which drives schoolboys to put a moustache on the Mona Lisa. … More R Day-4
Germany is freighted with so much meaning, it is hard for me to unpick it all. Born just five years after the Second World War, to a family who had ‘done their bit’ both on the home front and on the high seas, it is not surprising my view was coloured from the … More Day 3: From Mainz to Dachau
Belting through Belgium, going briefly Dutch, and today in Germany, I am taking Europe at a trot, if not as a Trot. It is interesting how similar much of it is, with autoroutes smoothly transitioning to autobahns without let or hindrance, though I did notice several German police cars at the reststop on the border, … More Day 2
peterleewright.com 