Hegel House in Stuttgart
The German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born in this house on August 27, 1770. The house now contains a small museum about his life and work. The quotation Read More …
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Hello, my name's Don. I'm an American living in Frankfurt am Main, Land Hessen, Germany, where I teach, ride a bicycle and go to the opera.
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The Hölderlin Path
These signs near the Goethe House, in the center of Frankfurt, show the beginnings of the Hölderlin Path (22 km) and the Goethe Trail (11 km). From here, the Hölderlin Read More …
Hölderlin in Homburg
The city of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe is now an affluent suburb of Frankfurt am Main. In the 19th century, Homburg did not yet have the coveted word “Bad” Read More …
Paris Métro line number 4
As a cyclist I seldom use the Métro in Paris, but in recent years I have had occasion to take line # 4 several times, mainly going to and from Read More …
Jana & JS on Joan of Arc Street
In February 2011, the street artists Jana & JS (Jana Balluch and Jean-Sébastien Philippe) were commissioned to make two large wall paintings on these new buildings at 110 rue Jeanne Read More …
Museum of the Sewers (Les Égouts)
The Museum of the Sewers is one of the few places in Paris that was not closed down by the coronavirus pandemic — but only because it was already closed Read More …
MAS = Museum aan de Stroom
This ‘Museum on the River’ in Antwerp was opened in 2010 after fifteen years of preparation and construction. I don’t know how much it cost or how controversial it was Read More …
Antwerp Centraal Station
This imposing train station was built from 1895 to 1905 as a terminus station, meaning that all the tracks ended here. The station features a huge dome, which aside from Read More …
An old-timey internet café
Most of you are too young to remember this, but in the early years of the twenty-first century there used to be establishments in most cities known as internet cafés Read More …
Velo-Antwerpen bike sharing
More than four thousand red and white Velo-Antwerpen bikes are available for spontaneous short-term rentals at over three hundred docking stations throughout the city of Antwerp. They are intended for Read More …