The Elbe... my own River Kwai
Dear Reader,
It was shortly after 9pm on Monday evening. With my partner and children, I was on the home stretch of a slog of a drive from Wiesbaden to Berlin.
A sign at the side of the Autobahn 9 signalled that the next exit was for Dessau Ost. Seeing the Dessau exit always gives me a psychological boost: a little over an…