Halloween 2007

Mom pays us a visit

A late-summer afternoon in Lincoln Park

...in which I tell you how to eat a Weisswurst, on the Travel Channel

Here, on the Travel Channel's newest (and best) site, World Hum.

Sweet Home Chicago

Darth Vader interview

in Vienna's oldest newspaper, the Wiener Zeitung. I'll post an English translation soon for those of you who don't read German. (Wink!)

Scenes from Romania

Bucharest







































































Brasov (hometown of our good friends - and tour guides- Cristian and Maria)



















Communist-era apartment buildings
















Tennis in Transylvania





















The narrowest street in Europe




























Around Transylvania














Window in Bran Castle

Cherry blossoms at Schwetzinger Schloss

On sale at your local bookstore...

my article on



in the April 2007 issue of Budget Travel. (Also available online: just click either image above.)

Star Wars was released 30 years ago this year...

so I asked Dave Prowse how it was playing Darth Vader in the original trilogy, in an interview for the Wiener Zeitung. I'll post more soon on what he had to say. For now, here's the autograph card he sent me.

Brussels

White gothic churches with red stained-glass windows.

Michelstadt, in the Odenwald

The famous Sepp Kraetz

Pictured in the washed out photos behind us is Sepp Kraetz with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sepp Kraetz with Bill Clinton, Sepp Kraetz with the Pope. Now here's Munich restaurateur and Oktoberfest personality Sepp Kraetz with us (me and my friend and colleague Oliver). More on this (and Kraetz's restaurant Andechser am Dom's excellent Weisswuerste) soon...

Read about our luxurious spa weekend in Baden-Baden...

in the Stars and Stripes...

A day of Unesco world heritage sites

The monastery at Lorsch














and the (fossil-filled) Messel Pit

Ball der Vampire 2007

The second-biggest wine barrel in the Heidelberg castle

more...