Wadlstrumpf

You know how it is: you spend your childhood in a town somewhere, you grow up and move away, and then when you come back to visit seventy ye...

After visiting the Burgruine Roetteln , we headed eastward along the German/Swiss border, skirting the southern edge of the Black Forest and...

On August 18, Stefan, Elias, Helen, and I departed Freiburg for Steinebach. The drive would normally take only about five hours, but we spre...

One of the very fine things about the German language is that it produces tidy verbs like uebernachten (literally, to overnight ) that soun...

The photographs in the previous post are somewhat misleading, because they show Semmel on plates. The proper way to eat a Semmel is as foll...

Behold the Semmel in some of its infinite variety: The Semmel* is the most revered of German breakfast foods. Made with refined white flour...

On Thursday and Friday, we made a westward excursion across the Rhine to Elsass (Alsace). Our tour began in... ...Gengenbach (in Germany, op...