Lake Constance – located on the Austro-German-Swiss triangle of borders – is one of central Europe’s great tourist attractions, but it is not perfectly suited for everybody’s taste. My personal problem with Lake Constance concerns its sheer size: should not a lake represent the idea of a confined space, with clearly discernible shorelines wherever you…
Some cities leave you a choice of where to go for an easy hike. You can pick between a walk alongside a lake or a river, a stroll through the gardens of an ancient castle and a journey to a beauty spot up a hill. But not all cities are quite so generous. Some cities,…
Tübingen is Germany’s two-and-a-half river city but any resemblance to Pittsburgh stops right there. There are no steel furnaces in two-and-a-half rivers Tübingen, no ketchup factories (labeled H. J. Heinz or otherwise) and no world-famous sports clubs – Tübingen’s soccer team plays all the way down in Germany’s sixth tier. Instead, you will get plenty…
