Made a trip to Germany for ten days last month. Got tied up with work on my return and never did get around to writing about it at all.

Visited Interzum (interior products and services fair) in Cologne and Ligna (for the wood industry) at Hanover. Both were huge – the latter needed bus routes inside the grounds! Finally went to Wismar on the Baltic coast to visit a factory that manufactures OSB. It’s a material that should do well in India provided the price is right. The only city I didn’t like was Frankfurt. Dirty, crass and very very cold (not the temperature – I sweated there).

Had a fairly good (if hectic) time and saw a new country. Was very impressed by the public transport systems and the fact that people went out of their way to be helpful.

The French could learn a thing or two about how to treat tourists…