In the Kerameikos of Athens there's a tripod straddling a pit. The chains tighten. Up from the darkness something emerges POTTER'S FIELD

You can go from Koblenz to Trier by train in an hour and a half. Our plan was to dawdle there by day-boat HURRYING SLOWLY: THE MOSEL IN 22 DAYS

On his 37th birthday, literary genius Johann Wolfgang von Goethe abandoned his bureaucratic job and fled to Rome EDUCATING THE GENIUS

In Cologne, waiters nonchalantly swing a circular tray called a kölschkranz (kölsch wreath) as they circulate among the tables WREATHS OF GOLD