Category Archives: Travel
Brazil in the middle of Germany
For 51 weekends of the year, visitors to the small Franconian city of Coburg find what they might expect: a charming market square, an 800-year-old fortress, and a gigantic historic palace, all surrounded by deep green forest. But that 52nd weekend, visitors find something very different: the color and…
Pilgrim’s progress: Finding Vonnegut in Dresden
DRESDEN, Germany — If you’ve never read Kurt Vonnegut’s book “Slaughterhouse Five” let me sum it up for you in three words — “So it goes.” The story loosely reconstructs Vonnegut’s time as a World War II prisoner of war — with an emphasis on the word “loosely.” …