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We met our best friends in Magdeburg when it was in the GDR and we see them every year. Unlike John Crace (Digested week, 16 November) we enjoyed speaking with people and sharing the riches of the community, with plenty of colour and shops, and a transport system superior to that which got us to the airport in Britain. Our friends’ mother shared her wisdom: “I have lived in four political and economic systems and, let me tell you, none of them work.”
Jonathan Stanley
Godmanchester, Cambridgeshire
• While on the subject of women’s loos (The queue for the ladies’ loo is a feminist issue, Journal, 14 November), perhaps architects and planners could address the problem of cubicles so tiny that your clothing brushes against the seat when you open the door to get out – even when there is then an unnecessarily large space before you reach the washbasins.
Mary McKeown
Biddenham, Bedfordshire
• Please don’t publish any more best buys from Which? (Supermarket bubbly rivals the best names, 16 November). I went to get my favourite fizz from Waitrose and there was an empty shelf with the fateful notice “Product temporarily unavailable”.
Barry Hughes
Edinburgh
• Prince Andrew: “I admit fully that my judgment was probably coloured by my tendency to be too honourable.” Ralph Waldo Emerson: “The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.”
Alasdair Buchan
Brighton
• Are there really no famous women from Stevenage? Shame on the town for its all-male wall of fame (Report, 16 November).
Deb Thomas
London
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