
I’m not a massive fan of fitness apps. But I do have a watch that measures my steps, and a quick check this morning shows that in the past couple of weeks I have walked over 200 kilometres. It sounds impressive (at least to me) so deserves a celebration. The Bavarian man in the bar…

The Hotel Central in Plzen may not have been the swankiest, but at checkout my bill comes too less than €100 for two nights. Its faded glory, feeling like a throwback to the 1970s, didn’t really matter. It was clean, (sort of) of comfortable and right in the centre of the city. But I was…