We must admit to not being very assiduous at visiting museums and taking in the traditional ‘sights' mentioned in guidebooks. But every now and again some truly oddball museum catches our attention. You may feel that a visit to the Louvre is not a necessary part of a stay in Paris, but if you are travelling through the Rhine-Ruhr area of Germany don't miss the Museum of Plagiarism in Solingen.
The other Germany
My brief was to take the pulse of eastern Germany on the 21st anniversary of her union (in October 1990) with her bigger neighbour to the west. Thus was a new and larger Germany born. Twenty-first birthdays have symbolic rather than any legal ...
