International Inconvenience

For as long as I live, I will never forget my trip, in 2005 (as part of an extended tour of Europe) to Como, the beautiful Italian town backing straight out onto the lake of the same name.   The longest journey of my life…at the time. Owing to our collective deepening financial crisis, we had begun consuming McDonalds food for both breakfast and lunch (and occasionally dinner), passing up on many of Europe’s culinary niceties in order... Read More

The Can & Cannot’s of Train Travel

  From Munster to Frankfut, mit liebe (with love). With summer heat rapidly covering every corner of Germany (along with E-Coli), it’s time for a raft of German holidaymakers to look forward to the spuriously-titled ‘savings’ priced tickets and, if they’re especially lucky, have a free roasting thrown in. I say that because last year, many of the intercity trains in Germany suffered malfunctioning air conditioners, sending temperatures... Read More