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Review: On track for fine dining

Review: On track for fine dining

DURBAN, South Africa — Over the past dozen years, I, like many correspondents covering the travel and tourism industries, have of necessity boarded my fair share of trains. Quick one-day roundtrips from New York to Washington, D.C. aboard Amtrak’s Acela, even speedier rides between European and Asian cities on those continents’ ever-growing, ever-faster networks of [...]

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Gettin’ some gemutlichkeit: Day 2

Recently, treKKen’ headed overseas to southwestern Germany for a 10-day, culinary- and culture-themed trek from Mainz to Lake Constance, with stops in Freiburg, Stuttgart, Hohenzollern Castle and other towns, cities, vineyards and sightseeing spots well-known, and less so, across the Black Forest, the Schwabische Alb (Swabian Alps) and the states of Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Wurttemberg. [...]