BMW go Home! Last year I reported from Munich about my visit to the BMW museum and BMW Welt. The latter being a large futuristic building next to the BMW museum, where all models of both cars and motorcycles are displayed with a “please do touch” and “sit in/sit on” signs inviting visitors to enjoy the vehicles and to get as close as it gets. (The range included the Mini Cooper which is owned by BMW) Before leaving Australia I had made ...

A few days ago I past through the city of Nordhausen. It was the town Gert and I had chosen for our stay overnight which didn't happen because of the accident. We choose Nordhausen by chance as it is roughly halfway between the cities of Mainz (where we were before) and Berlin. In Nordhausen I found something interesting which I didn’t know. First of all Nordhausen was part of East Germany (or DDR as they called it) and was under communist rule from the...

About a sandwich and a lot of Moselle. The sandwich refers or the “Sandwich Method”. Most people are familiar with this. If you have something bad to say or report then you start with something good, followed by the bad and end with some good again. While writing my last blog from Vietnam I asked the question about if I should also report bad things happening while on my travels.(at that time we witnessed the accidental death of two people at two ...