World Chump - Wanderlust

Ever heard of Bad Homburg? Koblenz? Aschaffenburg? Aschaffenburg? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? If you've never heard of Aschaffenburg, then you're among the 99.99% of the not-so-silent majority outside of Germany. Why would you have ever heard of it? Aschaffenburg has no more than 70,000 people living there. Aschaffenburg -...

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Until not too long ago, it became simply unfathomable that German Chancellor Angela Merkel could possibly lose a vote ...

Although the place we stay in is listed under 'hotels' on your booking.com and hotels.com and whatever.com websites ...

Picture a city that you've read about in fairy tales, or 1,001 Nights, if you will. There are narrow alleys you can ...

Should it come as a surprise that half of my Moroccan posts are dedicated to a small city in the Middle Atlas ...

After the apartment, I check out the dar chebab, or the youth center, where I used to work. On Monday, it is closed ...

For two years, Beni Mellal, the forgotten city and home of the famous Berber castle Ain Asserdoun, was my home. As a ...

Whenever people talk to me about Morocco, I always perk up. That can't be helped, especially when I called this ...

When I was assigned to Morocco as a Peace Corps Volunteer in 2000, I had a decision to make. Either accept the ...

The Worldchump blog has now been in existence since 2007. In that span of time, I've faithfully covered a lot of ...

So far, there is very little that has bothered me about Frankfurt. Granted, I don’t have the lowdown like most of the ...

Let's say you're in Frankfurt for the weekend, but you are looking for that typical German sightseeing tour. As much ...

One favorite German stereotype of Germany is the Lederhosen-wearing, pretzel-eating, beer-swilling guy who drunkenly ...

Quite a mouthful, isn't it? Let's not even bother with the pronunciation. But put this in your GPS, and you'll see why ...

One thing you'll come across in a typical Third World country is the trash. I really hate to say it, but it's a ...

One thing I've always missed about Europe was the way towns maximized the few green spaces they have. Green spaces in ...

If you ever wanted to see something that could pass off as typically European, then this might be the perfect place ...

If you are foreign, you are sure to be joined on a portion of your walk by one of several African artifact salesmen ...

Eleven years into this blog, I can finally present the first guest blog on Worldchump. And from what better source to ...

Sensations in the Bundesliga, as I pointed out a few posts back, are just rare these days. Some years back, you could ...