This piece, originally in German traces a trip I took in 2017 to Japan, where I tried to retrace my steps from decades earlier, when I wrote a book about the country...

Hiddensee is one of my favourite holiday destinations in Germany. I hope this comes across in this piece

Go to Leipzig if you can and enjoy a wonderful city which had a vital role in German reunification

A travel piece on my appreciation of living in Berlin, focussed on the opening in 2007 of a DDR museum