World Chump - Wanderlust

For my first European marathon, I decided to do some home cooking right here in Frankfurt. I registered fairly late for it, since I, admittedly, wasn't sure whether I was up for it. After all, it had been four years since my last marathon in La Paz. Besides,...

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I remember one day when, as a kid, my sister asked my dad what we thought was a simple question. It took years for us ...

Poreč is another one of Europe's thousands of little hidden secrets. The town itself sounds like 'porridge'. It has ...

After Venice, it was time to direct our focus east, toward Croatia. By now, I was having second thoughts about driving ...

Walking through Venice with a couple of small children can be hit or miss, depending on the kids' interests ...

Let's do a quick word association game involving world cities. What comes to mind whenever you think of New York? The ...

The one thing I remember about Venice this time around is this: Without a GPS, a compass, or even the sun, I venture ...

Detonating bombs, the latest Bayern Munich manager fired, storms ravaging the north...even I must admit that people ...

Amidst all of the hoopla of the World War II history in Europe, it's easy to forget Luxembourg's role throughout the ...

The recent bomb evacuation in the Westend area of Frankfurt is still receiving tons of ink throughout Germany and ...

Most cities are defined by their most prominent buildings, statues, or natural wonders on display, in other words what ...

So we're planning a birthday trip for Bash, this one going to the Praehistorium in the Saarland in the west of ...

One thing I have always admired about Germans is how they tend to their gardens. It matters very little just how big ...

It always surprises me to find that one of the nicest places I have ever known, the Steigerwald, was at my doorstep ...

Let's archive this one under the label 'cities nobody knows about but absolutely should'. Enter the 50,000 people ...

Ah, differences, or what makes cultures earn their names, even if that is within the same country. Having grown up in ...

Following a visit to a Magritte exhibition at the nearby Schirn Kunsthalle, I decided to look up the Kaiserdom a few ...

To get to the Goethe Tower, we take the subway to the Südbahnhof in Frankfurt, the Train Station South, which takes us ...

The changes you experience after you move to Europe are instantaneous. There are church towers instead of skyscrapers ...

On Easter Sunday, we decide to scale both sides of the Neckar Valley. For beginners, we need to consider the kids. As ...

For our first travel destination outside of Frankfurt, we choose Heidelberg for the Easter weekend. It's a long ...

One building that stands above the rest in Frankfurt -and over all of Germany, for that matter- is the ...

When you look at the most populated cities in Germany, Frankfurt on the Main (the river, pronounced 'mine') ranks ...

In the summer of 1978, my parents packed up their things, along with six children and a few suitcases, and left ...

Getting tired of posts in the U.S. about Western Carolina yet? Fear not, this will be among the last ones before our ...