A town that was never flattened, a shield with three armoured legs, and a very calm pigeon.
Three legs
The pigeon
A fortress never taken, Germans and Russians buried side by side, and a bird in the canal.
The steps
A photograph from 1942, a set of brick steps, and two days spent looking for them.
The song
A hot dog, a palace, and several thousand people in a rose garden to hear a piano.
Tour guide
My girlfriend arrives and starts spotting everything I had walked past, beginning with four street signs.
Small print
Breakfast, a statue nobody reads, an obelisk that commemorates nothing, and a plaque on a corner.
Replica
Back out after lunch, still in Warsaw, reading walls in a city that labels its own copies.
What is missing
Warsaw on foot. Almost none of it survived, and what is left is there to show you what is not.
Two arrows
A last day in London: three centuries of church, one pearly king, and marks in the kerb.
In the wild
Bench marks in the wild from St James’s to Drury Lane, plus a goose with a gorget.
Charlton Krentz 