Jeff’s Semi-Regular Aphorisms (VI)

Holiday busing edition:
Sleep is the most unaffected form of communication.

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Hostels, on the Other Hand…

It’s official: there are only three dirty hotels in the whole of Germany:
We looked everywhere, honest. But our members tell us there aren’t that many dirty hotels in Germany.

Hotel Modern, Munich, Germany
Central Hotel am Dom, Cologne, Germany
Ludwig Hotel, Munich, Germany

HT: Gulliver

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PA Bleg

Paul, writing in the comments, asks me where I’m going in Pennsylvania at the end of the month.
Well, the bulk of my trip will be to Hanover, where I’ll be visiting my uncle, who is President and CEO of Snyder’s of Hanover. (Yes, you read right–I am in the penumbra of a pretzel dynasty.) After [...]

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A Year in Cities, 2008

Others in the blogosphere have done this, and I thought I’d follow suit. Following is a list of cities I visited in the last calendar year, excluding smaller places and short stops en route somewhere else. Asterisks indicate a city I had not visited before:

Antwerp, BE*
Berlin, DE
Bolzano, IT*
Brussels, BE
Copenhagen, DK*
Düsseldorf, DE
Frankfurt, DE*
Hamburg, DE
Innsbruck, AT*
Malmö, SE*
Munich, [...]

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Trading Places

This week’s Economist has a briefing on world tourism. These two sentences caught my attention:
About 85% of American travel and tourism is domestic. Only one-fifth of American citizens have passports.
As a kid, I traveled within the continental United States extensively (over 40 states by the time I was 16), but once I started college, my [...]

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