Considering the accessibility of Germany, and the variety it offers to holiday-makers, it is no wonder every year sees it more and more popular. Take, for example, the Black Forest. Little more than a day's journey from London, it offers as complete an 'escape' from the workaday life of Western Europe as can be found. With Freiburg as centre - its lace-spired cathedral dominating everything - one can make excursions into the pine-covered hills, climb the Feldberg in the south or the Hornisgrunde in the north, visit villages where the peasants still go dressed in their gay native costumes, or accept the ready hospitality of the hill-side farmers whose carved verandas look out over the green hills they so diligently plough. Tired, one returns to the amenities of Freiburg, with its Opera House, its concerts, and theatres, its gay streets, and its university life, to be refreshed against the next adventure into surrounding hills.