Oh! [ That brightens up up immediately.] Have you ever been, then? I wouldn't think of it as all that dull. It's always been one of the places that I've never managed to get to despite desperately wanting to. [ But maybe he's also a little afraid he'll be disappointed in it when he does, and he doesn't want to risk that good thought in his head.]

The colony I grew up on was Braunschweig.