Category: Vacations
Wurzburg, a Franconian wine town, has been called a jewel box of the rococo. About an hour-and-a-half by train from Frankfort, it is also a great place to start …
Besides the beer, which Bavarians drink copiously, there is weisswurst, a fresh sausage traditionally eaten before ten in the morning. It’s made the night before of finely ground veal, …
Munich, Bavaria’s capital, is said to be every German’s favorite city. Its Oktoberfest is when the million and half Muenchners invite the rest of us to join them drinking …
Bavaria is a tourist center for Germany, with good reason. The people are gemutlich, more congenial, the mountains more pleasant, the forest more agreeable and then thereare those fairy …
Berlin, as can be seen on the map, is deep inside another, unfriendly, country, the German Democratic Republic, popularly called East Germany. A major autobahn (superhighway) runs from Hanover, …
Germany was a pioneer in building the superhighway. The first autobahn was built under Hitler during the 1930s. Theoretically the speed limit is eighty mph, but Germans let out …
On the corner of Pearl and Broad streets stands Fraunces Tavern, built as a home in 1719 then converted to a tavern in 1762 by Samuel Fraunces. It was …
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was responsible for building the centre. which was opened in 1976. Besides the two 110-storey towers with their thousands of …
If you can, go there on the weekend, when all the Chinese of the New Y ork area turn up to do their weekly shopping. Do go into one …
Retrace your steps as far as Sheridan Square and follow Waverly Place back to Washington Square. Then go up MacDougal towards 8th Street. MacDougal Alley and, on the other …