I was delighted to see that the Berliners had prepared themselves for my welcome reception by adding a lovely yellow love heart and yellow peace sign to a bit of that famous Berlin Wall. Everyone knows my most important mission is to find love and spread love and peace throughout the world so I thought it was very kind of the East Berliners to acknowledge my life themes.

I must say I was very disappointed the wall was so messy, simply covered f irom top to bottom in grafitti and even marked with holes. They would never have allowed a piece of national heritage to get in such a messy state in Glasgow, that is for sure.