World Chump - Wanderlust

About 30 miles down the road in the carnival city of Mainz lies a small biotech Company specializing in cancer research that was founded by the children of Turkish immigrants in 2008. Meet BionTech, the first company to have a COVID-19 vaccination approved in Europe. According to CEO Ugur...

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It's only been seven months since the pandemic has been raging, and for a moment it looked like Europe had it whipped ...

Growing up in a Catholic household, I was taught that it was indecent to bare any "naked skin," as it was termed. That ...

After World War II, a lawyer and art collector named Josef Haubrich donated his extensive collection of artworks ...

As millions of posts on millions of websites have already mentioned before me, the Cologne Cathedral is not only the ...

So far I have to say our European experience has gone as planned and has netted us some pretty decent travel. France ...

All right, let's talk about stereotypes. Just play along for a moment.What do you imagine when you think about Italy ...

Only a year ago during our trip to Scotland, Liebi tried to add one important leg to the itinerary. The fact that she ...

Kempten and I go way back. Not as far back as Kempten does with the Romans (or arguably the Celts, although that's ...

Give the U.S. this: if anybody knows how to pick a spot for their military bases, consulates, embassies, and resorts ...

 Over the years, I've been an unapologetic supporter of Airbnb. That faith took a bit of a dent on our last trip to ...

Honestly, I am not nostalgic. Far from it. Whenever people talk about the good old days, I only partially agree with ...

One staple that we have for visitors from abroad is a visit to Heidelberg. It's a winner, a tried and true tactic ...

One thing we couldn't miss in Vienna was the Albertina Museum. This is one of the museums in the world where you could ...

Growing up in a family of artists, Hundertwasser was no stranger in our house. Hundertwasser existed long before ...

Lost among the hoopla of our latest trip was COVID-19.  Rest assured, it was still there. Face masks were abundant ...

Okay, now that the kids got the first pick of Prague, it's time for the adults to get their culture dose in. One thing ...

On our first day in Prague, we venture out on our own. With the boys in tow, we need to get creative. Remember how I ...

For our first post-COVID trip, we decided against air travel, for obvious reasons. Here we wanted to minimize the risk ...

This is a sequel I hoped I would never have to write. But if you thought for one moment that COVID-19 would appease ...

The following hike could have been the 5-star standard, the Mutter of all hikes, the Über-hike in a country chock full ...

Let's talk about something not related to COVID, shall we? With COVID contained (for the most part), the family and I ...

There's a classic Bud Light commercial from 1999 you might remember. There are two guys, from the looks of things ...

Okay, here we go again. COVID-19. I apologize here in advance if this is not what you want to read when you visit this ...

It's a late March day in Frankfurt, Germany. According to the calendar, Spring is already here. You wouldn't know from ...

The place: Grüneburg Park in Frankfurt, smack in the middle of the city. Grüneburg Park has an ideal location. To the ...

Yesterday, I had to cancel a trip I had scheduled for Spain. The stops were going to be Malaga, Granada, Seville, and ...