How to travel on the train

Green travel can be fun! This mini-post is a tiny bit more on how to get to a conference on the environment with breaking the environment. Why should life be serious all the time? The Rhineland in Germany is famous for “Frohsinn” which means “cheerfulness”. Their ability to manufacture good cheer comes out during Karneval, […]

Tour a German publisher: Kiepenheuer and Witsch in Cologne

An office with a view–Cologne Cathedral is right there! Last week, our local library visited a local publisher . . . It’s a famous old German publisher: Kiepenheuer & Witsch. Their offices look right out onto the Cologne Cathedral. Their location next to the main Cologne rail station make it easy for their internationally renowned […]

Four Paintings for Writers in Cologne’s Wallraf Museum

The magical inscription on this painting reads: “We cannot lay her in the dark earth,” said the dwarfs and so they had a transparent glass coffin made so that she could be seen from every side laid her in it and wrote on it her name and that she was a kings daughter. Then they […]