Let’s just surf the surface in assessing that mother of all TV debates and quickly address the topic du jour which is eating cats and dogs. First, the assessment. Yes, the debate made for good entertainment but the partisans of rational political discourse might be...
Hi L and P, You know what happened. Plan B – biking to the Rhine on Monday, train to Switzerland on Tuesday – was thwarted when I learned that the seemingly eternal German railway strike would resume on Tuesday. I had to reschedule the train leg for Monday which was a...
Dear L and P, From Philippsthal I set out for Fulda, then along the Kinzig river and toward Frankfurt, all bikepathed and bike-routed, even well marked (Bike markers are green-on-white in Germany, sometimes very well and sometimes rather shoddily placed). Before...
Dear L and J If yesterday was a bitch, physically speaking, today was one in all other respects. The plan followed the map, and the route showed promise: Along the Werra river, mostly on bikepaths, lots of nature, the works. Problem was, that after about one mile the...
Dear L and J, My International Women’s Day began very beautiful and ended as a bitch. The task at hand was crossing the big watershed between East and West Germany, the so called Mittelgebirge, an assortment of mountain ranges best compared with the Appalachians....