CLOSE-BY ADVENTURES
SIND SIE DEUTSCHER?” SAID Frau Lindner. “Ja,” I replied, intent on keeping things simple. wissen Sie das?” “Die Aufkleber auf Ihren Satteltaschen sind meistens von Deutschland.”
Aha. The stickers on the F 750 GS’s panniers had given me away. I’m not actually German – any more – but I do go back to the Old Country regularly and I can’t resist collecting stickers that remind me of my ancestry. I should say I did go back; the virus has locked me up in Australia as it has most people except ex-PMs who will, with a bit of luck, stay away.
Don’t extract too much about my politics from my distaste for Tony Abbott. I’m one of those unfortunates who is to the right of Genghis Khan where his left-wing friends are concerned, and to the left of that bloke who got the ice pick through his skull in Mexico – Trotsky -- to the right-wingers. I consider that I am a moderate. Enough said, and don’t ask me about Tronald Dump.
