 This visit to Germany followed a long association with that country; in 1931 he had stayed with cousins at their "Schloss" in Gröna near Magdeburg, to learn the language.He had made frequent visits in the 1930s, including one skiing trip in Bavaria when he, as a Briton, was able, unlike his German friends, to ski over the frontier into Austria; that was because Adolf Hitler, pre-"Anschluss", had put a veto on travel there, to apply pressure to that end.It was also an era when Austria still drove on the left side of the road, and, on another occasion, McClintock photographed his Baby Austin 7 crossing from the right to the left at the frontier at Salzach.