Thermal steam off the Burtscheider Marktbrunnen in Aachen
Most people treat Aachen, Germany, as a Charlemagne stop and a border footnote: Dom queue, Rathaus photo on the Markt, one Printen bag from the tourist shelf, then the next train toward Köln or Maastricht. That works if a checklist is the whole point. It falls short if you like the city when Burtscheid still … Read more