germany travel

When your trip goes off the rails before it even starts, your only goal is getting back on track. That’s exactly what happened to us. Between a Lufthansa strike and …

We thought the hard part of getting to Germany was over once United rebooked our flight. After our original flight from Washington Dulles to Frankfurt returned to IAD due to a …

If you hadn’t heard, we’re back from my wife Sharon’s big round birthday year trip. And in our house, those trips come with one simple rule: the birthday person gets …

After surviving a Lufthansa strike and scrambling to rebook our flights to Germany, I thought the hard part was over. It wasn’t. In Part 1 of this saga, I explained …

Before our recent trip to Germany and Austria, I wrote about how I was rethinking my international data setup. In that post, I explained why I decided to test a …

I’m going to start at the beginning, which, as I’ve heard, is a very good place to start. I’d been planning my wife Sharon’s milestone birthday trip for months. And …

This was a special birthday trip—the kind where I stop worrying about saving miles and finally give myself permission to use them. That’s not how I usually plan trips. Most …

When you rent a car in the U.S., there’s usually a simple question to answer at the counter: Do you want to use your own insurance or buy coverage from …

When you book a hotel room in the U.S., you probably don’t think too hard about the bed description. King. Queen. Double. Two Queens. Those words usually mean something specific …