Whilst we were there I decided that I would like to see a little place called Rothenburg ob der Tauber, which is a part of medieval Germany on the Romantische Strasse near Würzburg, or down south of Würzburg, further to the east from where I was. So Tony Nicholson and I thought we would try and hitchhike, but that proved very difficult because of the conditions: there were all sorts of people moving around and the troops weren’t allowed to pick up and there wasn’t much petrol, so it was difficult. But we did manage to get there and saw this old place which I’d seen an etching of in my aunt’s room and decided I would get there. And I won’t go into the details because many people have themselves been there, but it was a typical old fortified medieval German town that had preserved its character.

And the other thing perhaps I remember was a trip to Heidelberg where the Heidelberg student Ausschuss had invited us down. We went to another play down there, saw the castle and Goethe’s Romantische Strasse, the Philosopher’s Way, and so forth, and trips up the Neckar River, but it was really... we were well looked after and had a wonderful time there learning about Germans and the problems they had, and I found them to be thoroughly admirable people.