This is a perfect gingerbready Victorian small town that culminates in a Disney castle.

An "elegant" (that was her word for it) though rather gingerbready affair on one of the quieter residential streets, tree flanked.

There are various versions of how tumultuous these years were in Tübingen, a quaint, gingerbready town, some of whose university buildings date from the 15th century.

The big draw in the centre is the gingerbready Römerhofgasse, a medieval lane that looks like a Disney film set with overhanging arches, lanterns and frescoed façades.

Half a mile from the Ascot Racetrack, he sees one of the latter tripping lightly down the steps of a nice gingerbready rooming-house, carrying a five-hundred-pound duffel bag on his back.

Physically, that setting was a modest Los Angeles building - "a strange, little gingerbready house," recalled Allan Burns, a writer for Ward who later was one of the creators of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."