Hi all, I am currently in Nice on the Cote d’Azur but I can explain. I hardly remember any truly great ideas coming from this quarter of France, I am merely on a 7 hour lay-over awaiting an overnight train to Rome. Not a bad place for a lay-over, though. The trip has thusfar been…
After Nice I went to Rome, which was like an attic of Western History. The Colosseum and Forum were both impressive, aöthough so familiar. (I actually thought that the Amphitheatre in Arles was in better condition). It was nice to have a look at the Roman world though, for so much of the rest of…
After Rome I spent three wonderful days high in the Swiss Alps. My overnight train actually went to Interlaken, but after surveying the town and seeing only souvenir shops and sunburned Americans, I decided that Interlaken was NOT the Alps, and took the gondola to higher ground. I found the small town of Gimmelwald, population 150 (I…
The next day I went to Bavaria and saw several of King Lugwig’s fantastic castles there. They were as impressive as the pictures, and their location was perfect. Yesterday, I rented a bike and rode all over that region, crossing the Austrian/German border at least a dozen times. I saw three German kids playing basketball…
Well, tomorrow I’m on to Munich, where I hope to visit the Dachau concentration camp. I had planned on going to Vienna next, but I just re-read with alarm John Harris’s last E-mail to me, saying that “July” 18-25th would be fine. I worry that there may have been a misunderstanding, so I suppose I…
I arrived in Vienna the next day and met up with John about 2 in the afternoon. His appartment is by far the nicest place I’ve stayed on my trip, I’m still getting used to not having to sleep in a room with 17 strangers. My first evening in town we went to one of the…
After Vienna, I went to Prague for two days, expecting to have to return to my previous mode of travel, one of Youth hostels, unwashed clothes, calling bread, cheese and a tomato ‘dinner,’ and infrequent showers. Well, most of that persisted in Prague, but the meal situation upgraded tremendously. I had the good fortune to…
Next stop, Berlin. By far the most interesting and least touristed big city that I’ve visited. The constant construction is frustrating but the energy of the place is really exciting. I stayed with a guy named Roderik, a really guy with whom Russell Bryant placed me in contact. He’s about 30 or so and lived in the…
From Berlin I spent the last couple of days in the small town of Bonn, in the west on the Rhine river. I stayed with Georg Rienartz, another contact via Russell who was my age and a student there. There wasnt an abundance of toursit sites in Bonn (although I’ve gotten progressively more negligent of my tourist…
