My Dear Friend of Democracy,
Is there a more joyful way of reading books than on trains?
Yesterday, early in the morning, at the central station in Berlin, I bought "Homelands." It is a personal history of Europe by British Timothy Garton Ash, a professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford.
Ash has studied Europe for a lifetime.
So, if you are planning a train journey or need a gift for someone interested in Europe, you might buy this book. It is, the blurb says, an urgent call to the citizens of this great old continent to understand and defend what we have collectively achieved.
See you in Europe,
Johannes