Tagged With "Gary German"
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New device uses walkers' muscles as GPS receiver
German researchers at the University of Hannover developed a new Satellite Navigation device that guides walkers using an electrical pulse to stimulate the sartorius muscle. The researchers claim it feels like a like a gentle tug in one...
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TravelGumbo Blogger HistoryDigger Wins National Travel Journalism Award
We at TravelGumbo are incredibly proud and pleased to announce that Whitney Stewart, HistoryDigger on Gumbo, has won a Bronze Award from the North American Travel Journalists Association for the 8-part series Finding Reiner, which ran in 2014....
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Strasbourg: Self-service tour of Alsatian food
PHeymont tries something new: A self-service gourmet food tour, organized by the Strasbourg Office de Tourisme.
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Oct. 3, 2017: Wörlitz, Germany
Join Marilyn Jones on a cruise-excursion visit to a town with one of Europe's oldest public landscape parks.
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German court: Continental breakfast isn't breakfast
Coffee and rolls, the traditional 'continental breakfast' isn't really breakfast for tax purposes.
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Germans win free beaches
Germany's highest court bars towns from charging for access to the beach, but they can put fees on bathhouses and other facilities.
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Star Alliance contest with million-mile prize
Your favorite cultural experiences could earn you a bonanza in frequent flier points.
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July 8, 2017: Ship of Fools, Nürnberg
A statue in Nürnberg, based on an Albrecht Dürer woodcut, is a metaphor for a threatened world.
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Forget Oil: Germany builds a beer pipeline!
The Wecken heavy metal festival is upgrading beer delivery for the thousands who crowd the festival each year.
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June 7, 2017: Insel Mainau, Bodensee
George G shares a snapshot from a visit to Mainau Island on Lake Constance in Germany. Known as the Island of Flowers, it's covered in parks and gardens.
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Eastern Europe Rail Odyssey: Istanbul to Sofia
Wilbur's exotic train journeys continue, today with stops in Istanbul, Thessaloniki, Meteora (Kalambaka), Skopje, Niš, ending in Sofia. If you love train travel stories, you'll love this post.
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Airlines dropping 2-person cockpit rule, again
A rule requiring two crewmembers in the cockpit at all times, implemented after a suicide-by-pilot, is now being repealed.
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Berlin's uneasy path to a pedestrian mall
Berlin has ambitions to follow Paris and New York in creating urban pedestrian spaces, but its plan for Unter den Linden is raising questions.
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Vatican's military buildup: 40 new Swiss Guards
Once a real military and now a ceremonial attraction, the Swiss Guards must still be, in fact, Swiss.
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Manholes: More Art Beneath Your Feet
PHeymont's fascination with 'civic pride' manhole covers and the art and history they portray keep him looking down as he travels...
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Three Churches in Nürnberg
Only blocks apart, these three churches each have their own history and feel, despite sharing common medieval roots.
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June 23, 2017: The Shortest River in the World!
A sign in Cassone near Lake Garda reads – in English as well as Italian, German and French – “River Aril, 175 meters, the shortest river in the world”.
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Eastern European Rail Odyssey: Gdansk to Vilnius
Wilbur's Eastern European train journey continues, with travels through Gdansk, Kaliningrad, Minsk and Vilnius.
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Scenes of Cesky Krumlov
Gumbo's mystery destination this past week was no mystery to a number of readers. Join us for scenes from this UNESCO World Heritage town.
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Passau: Small City, Big Past
A small German city on the Austrian border, Passau has a past bigger than its size would make it seem. It's a pleasant visit along the Danube
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Airline debuts a beer that's made to get high
Cathay Pacific is brewing its own high-altitude beer designed to overcome loss of flavor at cabin pressure and high altitude.
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Germany moves toward more free WiFi
Germany tries again to encourage password-free WiFi by protecting providers from being sued for what users download.
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Researcher warns: Selfies can spread head lice
Heads-together selfies could allow lice to spread to another's head, unlike 'safe selfie' practiced in our title shot.
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Germany's most unusual museums await you
Germany has famous museums—but it also has some fascinating ones hardly anyone knows. Above, an exhibit at the Schweine Museum in Stuttgart.
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Small Museums of New York State
While driving across New York following the Erie Canal, Jonathan L had the opportunity to stop at some of the smaller museums that are often missed by tourists.
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Air Berlin in bankruptcy; future uncertain
Germany's #2 carrier, long a money-loser, has gone over the cliff with Etihad's refusal to advance further funding.
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New partners revive German discount train service
Germany's largest bus carrier teams up with a partner to revive a discount competitor for Germany's giant Deutsche Bahn
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British holidays in Tunisia to return
Three years after a deadly terrorist attack, British tourists will return to Tunisian beaches.
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Air Berlin's fate to be known Monday
Next Monday's board meeting of Germany's #2 airline will determine its fate; it will most likely be sold in parts.
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Haut-Koenigsbourg, atop Alsace's Vosges Mountains
Haut Koenigsbourg is an improbable bastion atop the Vosges mountains, with views of the Rhine, Alsatian villages and Germany’s Black Forest.
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Laxenburg, Lower Austria
Professor Abe shows us the beauties of a small Austrian town with not one, but two, palaces and some beautiful parkland.
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More European airlines could be nationalized
Brussels Airlines, Condor and even Air France/KLM face the possibility of government take-over to prevent collapse.
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Airlines still busy with repatriation flights
With most regular flights grounded, some airlines are still busy retrieving their country's nationals from the far corners of the world.
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Churches of Park Slope, Brooklyn
PHeymont explores the varied and mostly 19th-century churches in one of Brooklyn's premier neighborhoods, and explores the area's history.
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Luray Valley Museum, Virginia
George G takes us on a tour of the museum that was the site for last week's Where In The World puzzle.
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Munich's sad choice: No Oktoberfest
Bierfest fans will have to settle for socially-distant "Prosit!" this year as Munich sides with safety over suds.
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Postojna Cave, Slovenia (Where Gumbo was #373)
Gumbo was visiting the spectacular Postojna cave in Slovenia. It's a beautiful cave, with an amazing assortment of dripstone formations.
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Weimar food fight: the Döner that isn't
Strict enforcement of Germany's food codes has forced döner kebab to take an alias in some cities.
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December 11, 2019: Four Wise Monkeys
Four, not three, wise monkeys in a German store set PHeymont the task of reconsidering "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil."
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Dec. 27, 2019: Savior of the Cathedral, Strasbourg
An unusual plaque at Strasbourg's Cathedral leads PHeymont on the path to an unusual and poignant story.
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Die Nacht am Rhein
Sailing down the Rhine on a river cruise, Pheymont captured some of the changing light and shapes of the evening.
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Berlin Airport says this time it'll really open
Depending on your level of skepticism, Berlin's new airport opening date of October 31, 2020 is either a dream come true or yet another bad joke.
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Union Square Holiday Market - Annual New York Tradition
Samantha and her husband spent some time in New York City last Christmas. It was magical and they loved walking around the Union Square Holiday Market. It is a New York City tradition.
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Learning More About New CompTIA A+ 220-1001 and 220-1002 Exams and How Exam Labs Practice Tests Can Assist You?
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Cologne: Just Passing Through
PHeymont reflects on a pleasant but far-too-short day in a city that's calling him back for more...some day!
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Milan to get Italian Resistance museum
The Italian anti-fascist resistance to Mussolini and German invaders will soon be honored in a museum to be built in Milan.
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Rail fares: UK's go up, Germany's down
Germany uses a tax cut to lower long-distance fares and carbon emissions.
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Jan. 11, 2020: The History Column, Koblenz, Germany
A monument that recounts the town's history also obscures some of it.