travelling notes (xci)

The more casually the waiters are dressed, the better the food they bring will be.

travelling notes (xc)

There is a moment of total serenity in a foreign city when all of a sudden - you remember all the words in a language you either never knew or have long forgotten. 

travelling notes (lxxxix)

Cologne cathedral can only be humbled by one other thing... Cologne philharmonic orchestra.

travelling note (lxxxviii)

The best thing to do in Bonn (Germany's loveliest city, I have to admit) is to skip Beethoven Haus altogether and go straight to the museum house of August Macke. This is what a museum should look like. August Macke was a genius, and I never thought I would use that word when describing German fine art.

travelling notes (lxxxvii)

Bonn is a city of owls. And the owls, as we all know by now, are not what they seem. 

travelling notes (lxxxvi)

In a land of über-punctual Germans, there's nothing worse than a bus arriving horribly, unforgivably late. With a driver who looks like there hasn't been a massive screw-up and 'alles ist in Ordnung'. It's cold and I want to strangle him. 

travelling notes (lxxxv)

The two most important attributes of any great city are imagination and a sense of humour. I'm happy to witness how Vilnius is growing in terms of the former (even of it doesn't always work - their MO Museum is a waste of space), but the latter, crucially, is lacking. It's still a city where you don't laugh.