Wine Bach and Cuckoo Clocks

<p><strong><em>If a friendship lasts longer than fifteen years you're no longer friends. You're family.</em></strong></p><p></p><p>Since childhood Lorna has been curious about Germany and her ancestral roots there. She was fourteen when her great-grandfather died a man who was born in what is now part of Ukraine but who was a self-proclaimed proud German.</p><p></p><p>Having grown up during the Cold War Lorna had always viewed the former East and West Germany as being starkly different until 1999 when she met Christine a woman from the former East Germany who became one of Lorna's closest lifetime friends.</p><p></p><p>Over twenty-five years Lorna made several trips to Germany in search of the world's largest cuckoo clock a hotel in Berlin where guests can sleep in a coffin or prison cell another hotel along the Rhein River that is owned by a family who may or may not be Lorna's distant relatives sausage that meets the Nuremberg Sausage Protection Association's standards and the best view of Neuschwanstein Castle.</p><p></p><p>In her most recent memoir travel and humour writer Lorna Stuber tells of her adventures in Germany while she reconnects with and learns more about her familial ties to Europe.</p>