The final stop on my train trip is Munich. Busy, business-like, full of office workers rushing past, tourist crowds wandering along the streets and through the cavernous station subways. Distinctive Munich, capital of a Bavarian duchy that became a kingdom under Napoleon and stayed that way until 1918. Even within the modern Federal Republic, Bavaria…

Say hello to Kunigunde, everyone. (Kunigunde says Hi.) There she is, right in front of us, on her favourite spot on the old bridge right in the heart of beautiful old Bamberg. And that’s not the only reason why she’s smiling. Her husband Heinrich, son of a Bavarian duke no less, has given her a…

It might have been because of the sunny weather (better than forecast) but Cologne really appealed to me. Set by the gracefully flowing Rhine, Cologne has two thousand years of history going for it, back from when the Romans established their Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippenensium here on the banks of the mighty river. The city…

Quite frankly, I’d had enough. You will have noticed from my posts that I’d done a bit of travelling since COVID travel restrictions had begun to roll back in 2021. And it’s something I love and I hope I’ll always be grateful for having the opportunity to go off and enjoy these adventures. As 2022…