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