Not too long ago, I was saying that 2013 was going to be full of work and running, but not too much adventure. Perhaps because many of my travels this coming year will be to places already familiar to me and/or are associated with work. Even so, if you take a look at my calendar, …
I’m off this weekend to one of my favorite German cities ever to celebrate a friend’s wedding! So much cultural and artistic history going on in Weimar — once the home of Goethe, Schiller, Nietzsche, Liszt, Kandinksky, Klee, and the list goes on and on. I just love that mix of classical German culture and …
I’m writing this from the working-at-home trenches in Hamburg. We’re in between semesters in Bremen, so I organized a trip home to Seattle for next week, and while I was at it, scheduled in some time with mein Schatz that doesn’t require weekend commuting. While I’m much more productive in my actual office at the university, …
After finally gathering enough points on the Deutsche Bahn, I earned myself a free round-trip train ride anywhere within Germany. Naturally, I decided to explore somewhere brand new and Dresden was at the top of my list. After booking everything, we discovered that our trip coincided with the 66th anniversary of the controversial Allied air …