Unusually this post features a photo of me, rather than one taken by me (above). I'm on the right looking Southwards towards the s...

On Monday we faced the difficult job of saying goodbye to a dear friend, felled in his prime by a brain tumour which had pursued him for si...

Well, I am finally the owner of a Tripod - after having wanted one for a long time. My family bought one for my birthday this week, and ...

This A4/50page book is a very useful introduction to the postwar history of Berlin and it iconic and divisive wall. Not a great work of a...

I came across Primo Levi's name for the first time in December 2013, at the Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe in central Be...

There was a particularly spectacular sunrise in Perth last week - hundreds of photos were posted on the www from all over the town. I...

All quiet on the Western-blog? Yup - life has been busy lately. Still, there's all that lovely rain to watch, washing down the wind...

Several hundred meters of the Berlin Wall still exist. While in much of the city, all traces of the appalling structure have be...

"Of course, you'll have to look at The Reichstag" , my friend from Berlin e-mailed me back in the summer when we were pla...