I have just spent a week in Ellmau, a picturesque village in the Austrian Tirol. I love visiting Austria. However, it had been five years since I was last in Austria, and the changes in the make-up of my fellow holidaymakers was remarkable. On my visits before 2007, there had been many Irish, English, Scottish, French and Italian tourists. In 2012, 95% of the tourists in our resort were German. What does this tell us about the respective health of these European economies? In addition, I was taken aback by the levels of freight traffic out of Austria and into Germany. Germany (using my extremely unscientific methods) appears to be booming.
Michael Aldous and I had our book The CEO: The Rise and Fall of Britain's Captains of Industry published a few weeks ago. You can find out more about it and buy it at Cambridge University Press's website . It is also available at Amazon , Waterstones , and Barnes & Noble . The CEO has already been reviewed in The Sunday Times , The Observer and Financial Times .