Winter was getting old. True, the weather in Germany has been unseasonably mild, but certainly not balmy. And then there’s the rain. I began daydreaming of warm beaches, but neither my ...

Relaxing at the spa resort of Baden-Baden in southern Germany's Black Forest, I see more naked people in two hours than many Americans see in their entire lives. Ever since the Roman emperor Caracalla ...

Cars race past us as we turn off the Autobahn motorway and onto a quieter street that leads into a long, tube-shaped tunnel. For more than two and a half kilometres we speed through Michaelstunnel, ...