The ' Note Affair' from three perspectives  The girl in 1977  (DE) When she woke up alone in a strange bed on that June morning in 1977,...

-Munich 1939 to 1945 -  (DE) When I was born in Munich on 23 May 1939, the world was on the brink, and very few people were aware of it. ...

-Munich 1945 to 1953- (DE) "For God's sake! That can't be! It's gone! Just gone!" I, a mere six-year-old, was standing on Guldeinstraße...

-Munich 1953 until the 90s- (DE) On the morning of 3rd August 1953, I stood proudly and excitedly before the Bauer carpentry workshop in...

(DE) "The horizon was so vast back then", Fips, my friend and former flatmate, muses when we meet up almost 50 years after our time...

21st October until 5th November 2023 For a long time, we wanted to see Vietnam. Dave had been in 1992, shortly after Vietnam was opened...

(DE) Berlin, June 1978 It's easy to smile at the old joke about two committed young scouts who take their duty to do a good deed every...

Mexico, November 2016 My husband Dave and I are experienced travellers in faraway countries, but especially in the countries of the South...

My grandmothers and their story (DE) When I was born into this apartment block community on the southern outskirts of Regensburg in 1953,...

The women in our street (DE) I feel as if only women lived in the apartment blocks of my childhood in the 1950s. Of course, this is a...

The children in our road (DE) "Can I go down? Pleeease!!!" was my daily plea to my grandma. This meant that I wanted to go out to play in...

Stansted, September 2017 (UK) We were returning from visiting friends in Munich and had landed at Stansted Airport. It was 11 pm, and, as...