Oct. 12, 2019: Roadside Surprise, Speyer, Germany
A long day in the middle of a Viking river cruise. It started with a longer-than-planned bus ride to the day’s city, and ended with
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A long day in the middle of a Viking river cruise. It started with a longer-than-planned bus ride to the day’s city, and ended with
Actually, two, since this statue of Kaiser Wilhelm II in Cologne, Germany, is not far from a statue of his grandfather, Wilhelm I near the
If your vision of the Rhine resembles those Viking River Cruise commercials showing the gleaming white boat sailing through a deep green canyon it may
Meng Meng, panda in residence at Berlin’s Zoo, has given birth to twin sons who are almost guaranteed to be stars of the show once
There’s an old song—at least now it’s old—about a youthful romance in Heidelberg: Ich hab’ mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren—I lost my heart in Heidelberg.
A movement is growing in Germany, and not only among Green Party activists, to sharply limit domestic flights in favor of making rail travel even
Most often, I think of sheep grazing in a field, or lying like lumps of potential sweaters and scarves in a field. But in June,
Anyone who’s traveled around Europe is familiar with the litany: “After the war, it was reassembled stone by stone,” or “You can still see bullet
Fairy tales often make good subjects for fountains, but the tales they tell are not always nice ones, and this one we visited while in
WHERE GUMBO WAS #332 Breisach, Germany is a small town along the Rhine with an impressive ancient cathedral set high on a hill above it.
A long day in the middle of a Viking river cruise. It started with a longer-than-planned bus ride to the
Actually, two, since this statue of Kaiser Wilhelm II in Cologne, Germany, is not far from a statue of his
If your vision of the Rhine resembles those Viking River Cruise commercials showing the gleaming white boat sailing through a
Meng Meng, panda in residence at Berlin’s Zoo, has given birth to twin sons who are almost guaranteed to be
There’s an old song—at least now it’s old—about a youthful romance in Heidelberg: Ich hab’ mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren—I
A movement is growing in Germany, and not only among Green Party activists, to sharply limit domestic flights in favor
Most often, I think of sheep grazing in a field, or lying like lumps of potential sweaters and scarves in
Anyone who’s traveled around Europe is familiar with the litany: “After the war, it was reassembled stone by stone,” or
Fairy tales often make good subjects for fountains, but the tales they tell are not always nice ones, and this
WHERE GUMBO WAS #332 Breisach, Germany is a small town along the Rhine with an impressive ancient cathedral set high