Blogging will be light in the coming week (as it has been for the past couple of days) as I am travelling to Geneva/London/Warsaw and then after a weekend on to Brussels.

Today I returned from Strasbourg, the beautiful city which hosts the outlandishly glassy-eyed European Parliament and the rather more sensibly scaled Council of Europe.

The guide mentioned the Nazi destruction of a famous synagogue during WW2, but somehow missed this earlier horrible Strasbourg episode of European ethnic cleansing of all those pesky Jews.