Hello, again, Blogonauts! Let's play catch-up here for a day or two, shall we? I have given the Freiburger Münster its own special entry here, if for no other reason of its age and centrality for the town. But unlike churches in most of the US, the church is endowed with maintaining fair play in the local trades. First off...what is a Münster? It is not related to Herman Munster...at least I don't believe so. Essentially, a Münster is a church t...

Hello, again, Blogonauts! This will be short and sweet...and savory... For reasons known only to their kinky selves, several people ask me to post Food Photos. To satiate those visual appetites, I've posted a cupboard full of comestibles in the album labeled "Food, Photos So Far." There’s more to say about Freiburg, too, so consider this your lunch break before the next bit of wandering. Blog to you later!

Hello, again, Blogonauts! Or should I say, Wilkommen! You're joining me in Germany! The next couple of weeks will be a winding wander through parts of Europe that are new to me. Stay alert for possible discoveries. (I'm leaving my linguistic comfort zone to get by as much as I can speaking only German. Plus, we will explore a bit of history, primarily that of the Holy Roman Empire, that was somehow absent in my schooling.) So... on Monday Lufthansa was late lu...

Hello, again, Blogonauts! My train from Frankfurt to Freiburg is a bit late, so what better way to pass the time than updating you, my intrepid fellow-itinerants. During my last few hours in Valencia, Toby humored my request to see the Central Market. Wandering there, we found a variety of Monday street markets where locals were selling (and buying) everything from unfathomables to unmentionables. Along the way we passed through Valencia's Plaza del Ayuntamien...

Hello, again, Blogonauts! Valencia can leave an impression on a body ... but more on that later. Yesterday Toby planned a bike ride for us: He, on his trusted two-wheeled 24-speed steel steed, and I, on my first-time-ever e-bike. There was a time when my daily commute was on a bicycle. But since my era of routinely pushing pedals was more than half-a-life ago, my thighs and calves were relieved not to be the sole source of locomotion for this trip. Once my ren...