I am to blog the review the Hong Kong leg of our tour, but before I start, I wanted to record my feelings on leaving Germany, leaving our jobs, the flat, our fields, and on popping home for a visit which was far shorter than it should have been. British airways really did destroy the orderly and sane dismantling of our ‘German life’ which had been planned. There was time for only the most essential of tasks; the gas, the electric, the changes of address… In the last week in Kronberg, we slept on garden furniture mattresses under old sheets which had been intended for the decorators. We had no TV, no fridge - just a container on the balcony where the January temperatures kept our basic supplies fresh. I am not pleading hardship here. Being
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