Lessons for travelling:

Don’t leave wallet and phone on the plane

Expect to meet friends

Expect beggers

Wine is never as good as it should be

A late night battling an automatic Windows 10 update turned into an early morning when the skip man arrived at 6.30 am… Working in a space underneath a load of bedrooms.

I’m in Germany in a fancy hotel, stylistically decorated with stencils and tea chests and a carpet that looks like a dog has been ill on it.

Im watching German TV and there seems to be a Sunday league football match on the box.

When will the BBC get into this?  It would make brilliant TV…

So The Colonel is back – older, dafter, balder than before…