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Useless trivia: what’s the most populous metro area in Germany? Not city but metro (city + suburbs)? It’s not those of Berlin, Hamburg, or Munich, though those are the three biggest cities. The biggest metro is the Ruhr area, not based around a single big city but a cluster of smaller ones, the largest being Essen, Dortmund, and Duisburg. It's kind of like the American Rust Belt, in that its economy was historically based on industry and mining. What’s there to do there, for anyone just passing through? Not a whole lot, it seems, but it's a fine stop for a weekend while on the way somewhere else.

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Austin City Limits, or just "ACL," is one of the more famous festivals in the United States. Not quite as big a deal as, say, Coachella, but it's up there. I'm sure it's the biggest one in Texas, and it features artists from all over the genre spectrum from rock to rap to electronic to country, and every level of popularity from the biggest names to flavors-of-the-month with one big radio hit to unknowns just beginning their careers. It happens over the first two weekends of every October (except 2020, of course) in Zilker Park in Austin, Texas.

I've experienced ACL no less than five times.

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One more day in Salzburg and there was still more to see. There's surprisingly quite a lot to do in such a small city.

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Salzburg is a small city in Austria, the capital of a state also named Salzburg. At just over 100,000 inhabitants it's on a similar scale to Luxembourg City. It's mostly famous for being the home town of the legendary composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and more recently for a classic movie that was filmed there, "The Sound of Music." I have little interest in either of these things, though, so I'd wager this travelogue has fewer mentions of Mozart or the Von Trapps than any other about this city you're likely to read.

  1. Kloster Kreuzberg - Hiking Trails and a Brewery
  2. Hamburg: Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Astra
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