Number One flew into London, and straight out again to Nuremberg, en route to Hof.
Were one to invent an all-purpose place name in Germany, Hof it would have to be. Even town of any significance, and a lot of others, have at least one.
Malcolm, though, know a couple 0f things about Hof.
First, it is so adjacent to the Czech border that it was a place for spooks and others to be in the Cold War. The theory was the Red Army tanks could, at any moment, come down Ascherstrasse with only the bold-men-and-true of the US Army to stop ‘em. Hence the proliferation of aerials and guys with sophisticated comms on the hill-tops. Doubtless, the other side of that Iron Curtain, there was the mirror image.
That’s the boring bit.
The other is quite endearing.
Hof is Strelsau, capital city of Anthony Hope’s Ruritania.
malcolm,
totally unrelated but, with regards to the recent slugger posts on the florida ‘hoodie’ murder. two quick points
1. pete baker. i have had similar experiences, yellow cards, red cards for reasons which are not obvious to me. i should follow your not to bother and post comments but…. where’s the fun in that.
2. HL Mencken. much mis-understood with regards to his alleged racism, anti-semitism etc etc. i attach a link to one of the last articles he wrote for the Baltimore Sun.
http://www.mencken.org/text/txt001/mencken.h-l.1948.tennis-order.htm
regards
WT