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European Journey 1953, Part Four – Berlin

17th September 2024 Going Postal 0

When my friend Alfred Friedel comes off duty it’s usually somewhere around one o’clock in the morning. For Alfred is a newspaperman. And morning newspapermen the world over live like owls. Take a good look [more…]

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European Journey 1953, Part Three – Hamburg

10th September 2024 Going Postal 0

You climb into an aeroplane at Amsterdam Schiphol and as soon as you are comfortably airborne, you order an excellent dry sherry and nibble at a picnic lunch which you don’t really need. You try [more…]

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Postcard From Berlin, 1979

10th December 2020 Going Postal 0

Back in the late 1970s, when we were both rising stars in IT in the Ministry of Defence, my friend was posted to Berlin to run the Army’s computer centre there. Being a good mate, [more…]

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