Transcending Borders: A Little Piece of Paradise on the South Styrian Wine Road “Black Gold,” beautiful vineyards and a wide variety of delicious wines combine with gorgeous landscapes on the Austrian/Slovenian border. By Juli... Read More...
Half-timbered Houses and More in Hesse’s Homberg Fabulous half-timbered architecture and fantastic fairy tales meet and mingle in this delightful town. By Leah Larkin Photographs Courtesy Leah La... Read More...
Pforzheim Destroyed by Allied bombing, Pforzheim started anew as the remains of the city’s former self silently keep watch. By James Ullrich Nestled in a ... Read More...
The Lure of the North Sea at St. Peter-Ording Settle into a Strandkorb, take in the salt air and enjoy beach life along the coast of the North Sea. By Leah Larkin Rain pelted down ... Read More...
Traveling With No Itinerary By Bob Bestor Group travel via bus, rail or ship/boat, in which decisions regarding accommodations, transport, sightseeing—and sometimes even suste... Read More...
Germanic Food Gets Little Respect By Bob Bestor Unlike the cuisines of Italy and France, there isn’t much of a following for Germanic cooking among the ever-increasing legion of Nor... Read More...
My Berlin By Bob Bestor • Photographs Courtesy Bob Bestor Germans we met on our trips to Europe in the late 1970s all seemed to ask if we had “seen Berlin.” ... Read More...
Volkswagen Factory Delivery — 1979 As Saturday Night Live’s Roseanne Roseannadanna so often reminded, “It’s always something. If it ain’t one thing, it’s another.” In 1979 it was Kho... Read More...
Medical Adventures in Europe and Asia In 28 years of travel to Germany, Austria and Switzerland to do research for my subscription travel newsletter, my wife, Liz, and I made a few bad cho... Read More...
