![]() For the rest of his life my maternal grandfather had a paramount piece of advice for the world. The other man - on my mother’s side - saw his best friend drown when his destroyer was cut in two in the Mediterranean. One grandfather was forced to crash-land his plane in Cornwall, with bad results for himself and his crew. ![]() In both of their cases, the experience was pretty awful. They both fought the Germans, you see, and I don’t think they would much mind me mentioning it now. ![]() The sky is blue and the foliage of the oaks so lush that the shade is almost black and in an ecstasy of enthusiasm for the amazing city of Berlin I raise my glass, again, and think of my grandfathers. How do you do? al4a.cpm I see Germans frolicking in the delicious fresh water of the Wannsee, and Germans having meticulously organised picnics on the largest inland beach in Europe German girls smoking roll-ups and handing round punnets of strawberries, and ancient German men, nut-brown, doing creaking callisthenics in the sun.
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