Travel in the Plague Years

Picking up the pieces and taking our act on the Road, 2021

Frankfurt Airport, December 2021. Creative Commons license.

I write from the Hotel Garni Djaran in Offenbach, a suburb of Frankfurt that’s rough by European standards. Frankfurt is a classic example of the Large Boring Northern European City, on a list with Rotterdam and Basel. There’s a gothic cathedral (The Kaiserdom, rather shabby as gothic cathedrals go), a river down the…