In Germany, salads are assemblies of ham and mayonnaise, not trendy tossed leaves.

Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.

Don't worry about never having time to write. Just write what you can in the time you do have and give yourself a big clap on the back, followed by a double latte and a blueberry muffin.

Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.

English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

I went freelance in 1996 and my children are now teenagers and it seemed right.