

The streak finished: 15 consecutive months of spending time outside the UK and then came April 2017, during which I visited Sheffield and Manchester and Stoke but nowhere beyond the English borders. Time to start afresh, then. It’s Helen’s birthday…

The Hannover part 2
Scare stories about the hotel wifi being terrible were inaccurate, so with a mildly ropey head I was able to iPlayer myself some Have I Got News For You early doors, rather than wake Helen. What eventually woke her, and…

Owl be seeing you
I slept terribly on Saturday night. Woke up repeatedly throughout the night, often with no feeling in one of my hands and having to shake it back to life. I have a sneaking feeling the bed is on a slope. But!…

It’s a Rathaus, or so they say
All good things come to an end. On Monday, what came to an end was our streak of avoiding Hannover itself in lieu of more interesting places. But perhaps the reputation I’d come to believe, that here was a dreadfully…