World Chump - Wanderlust

This goes under the category: world city centuries ago, just another small town in the 21st Century for tourists to joke about, with punchlines dealing with the fields of fishing and/or diseases. Personally, I have always found Worms fascinating, for the (to foreigners) least obvious reason: the Nibelungen...

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A few posts back, I briefly touched on German television in that I imagined what a CSI: Frankfurt episode would look ...

To this day, I have always maintained that the three best years of my life were spent in La Paz, Bolivia. In La Paz ...

Somewhere I read that Heaven in Europe is where... the English are the policemen the French are the cooks the Germans ...

As Part III of the trinity of must-see medieval cities in Germany besides Dinkelsbühl and Rothenburg, today's post is ...

If there were such a thing as a CSI Frankfurt as opposed to a CSI Los Angeles, Miami or New York, you might have just ...

Okay, so the title is a bit of a misnomer. Fact is, the majority of Germans don't even own property, let alone houses ...

After our Kumbaya moment is completed in front of the arena in Pamplona, we head for the car. People are still ...

The first Running of the Bulls at the 2019 San Fermin Festival is scheduled for eight o’clock on the morning of ...

From Bordeaux, it is time to head south in our rented Opel. We take the autoroute for this, and it’s a comfortable ...

I have always maintained that if I had to pick one country other than the U.S. or Germany where I could not only ...

The convenience of traveling through Europe is that you can always reach a number of countries fairly quickly, which ...

Here's another hint for tourists or locals looking for a day trip around Frankfurt and who: 1.) don't want to see the ...

From our base in Edinburgh, it's hard to resist a side trip to England, which we agree to do on a weekday, when we ...

On Easter Sunday, we had already more or less decided we were not going to celebrate Easter Sunday in any major ...

Okay, I admit it. Scotch is one of my guilty pleasures. Don't get me wrong, I like a good bourbon or the triple ...

One thing that still hasn't changed is that, even with worldchump status, I still have two kids whose plans differ ...

By now, there is little doubt that Edinburgh qualifies as a great European city. History, culture, politics, overall ...

Our first full day in Edinburgh will be spent walking, so there will be no wheels or guides - just us, the GPS and the ...

Our GPS says it will take us one hour and ten minutes to get from Glasgow to our vacation rental in Edinburgh. Come ...

Before we embark on our trip to Scotland, I check the weather there. I see clouds and a few drops, temperatures in the ...

Every city has it. It's the one place where everything comes together, the bullseye, the middle of the spider web, the ...

This can be listed under 'day trips' for the casual traveler stopping in Frankfurt and with 12-24 hours to spare...and ...