Marshall in Strange Places

Why doesn't Dessau push its Bauhaus heritage a little more? For a few glorious years in the 1920s, it was here that some of the most inf...

Patiently posing in front of our rental I meet a Canadian at the rental car desk. While he filled out my reservation, we exchanged s...

If you don't have access to a car, it isn't easy to reach Eltz Castle. There's no train access, since it's a cas...

Four years ago, I was my way to the Dusseldorf airport from a job interview and started chatting with my cab driver. He had three kids and...

I think this heat wave is beginning to affect the Germans. The other day, on a crowded, stuffy bus, a man threw up between his legs at his...

Whenever we got lost in Hanover, we looked for the "Witch Church' to orient ourselves. Cities in Northern Germany are studi...

Xanten's temple. To see what remains of the Romans in this corner of Europe, you take a train to Duisberg. There, you change trains...

Yesterday I was finishing up what was promising to be a fairly decent blog, and then Blogger decided to tell me I saved my draft and then di...

Some day someone will perfect time travel, opening an extreme time travel tourism industry for the German medieval ages. War, famine, plag...

Dusseldorf's Altstadt, during Christmas. Dusseldorf has made headlines around the world for terror plot. Four men were arrested o...

The glorious Schloss Drachenburg, aka German Downton Abbey. Live long enough in the Northwest Rhineland (a year and a half or so) and...