Erfurt and The Spread Of Ideas
10.06.2018 Back in Berlin and before I’ve even left Schönefeld Airport Station, I’ve helped 3 Chinese tourists and directed them on the best route to...
Currywurst and Luther
March 2018 I think now that it’s reasonable to speculate that the Pach side of the family has German origins and moved east in their...
Re-connection Part 2
November 2017 – May 2018 At the Conservative Party Conference in 2016, the then British Prime Minister uttered a most infamous statement that ‘a citizen...
Re-connection: Part 1
The weeks spent in Poland and Germany were, I believe, a re-connection or more appropriately a resumption of a connection. By mid-October 2017, I had...
Bonn – The Accidental Capital City
07.10.2017 Last night as I filled out my Interrail card I realised that I had badly miscalculated. Today is the final day I can use...
In The Land of The Giant Churches
I read an article about the origins of the surname ‘Pach’ on the Web. My father maintained that the name had German roots, but like...
Leipzig – The City Of Bach
29.09.2017 One final twist. A Scottish couple who are also guests in this hotel tell me about a newly opened exhibition dedicated to the contribution...
Where Did The Lwów Folk Go?
Wrocław (pronounced Vrots – wav) is a city in western Poland, in a region called Silesia, which after WW2 not only became Polish once again...
An Unexpected Development
20.09.2017 My second visit to Kraków, Poland’s ancient capital and a city where my father lived for a few years as his father was stationed...
Warsaw – The Phoenix City
If you have seen the award winning film ‘The Pianist’, you will get an idea of the condition of Warsaw at the conclusion of WW2;...