The Kingdom of Sweden has an impressive 5,000 year history, and Stockholm is the very progressive city where it begins. Now with a population over a million people, medieval Stockholm grew along the Baltic Sea, where an archipelago of some 24,000 islands, skerries and rock protrusions have protected it from the open sea, creating a [...]

"Cologne, or Köln, is 43 miles by rail from Aix-la-Chapelle. This famous city was originally the chief town of the ancient Ubii, the Oppidum Ubiorum of Tacitus; but it became known as Colonia Agrippina from A. D 51, when Agrippina, who was born here while her father Germanicus held command in the district, induced her [...]

A bus tour is always a good way to be introduced to a new city, and the daily Heidelberg City Bus Tour is attractive and efficient. Should you prefer to be on your own, public transport around Heidelberg is not difficult, even if your German isn’t quite up to the mark. Taxis are plentiful, and [...]

 
From Goethe to Mark Twain, Artists Have Loved It
 
Oh, to be in Heidelberg, now that April’s here!

One of the loveliest cities of Europe, the great German university city of Heidelberg stretches along both sides of the wide Neckar River, a tributary of the Rhine. Pleasure boats thread a leisurely path along the river, enticing [...]