Travels so far:
- January 4 – Back to Saarbrücken after two weeks travelling (Paris, Hong Kong & Manila)
- (January 8 – aborted travel to Krakow, Poland – went only as far as Hahn airport)
- February 3 – Carnival in Saarguemines, France (Saarbrücken’s next door French neighbor, a mere 30 minutes away by tram)
- February 10 – Carnival in Mainz, Germany
- February 13 – Frankfurt, Germany
- March 1-3 – Freiburg, Germany
- March 7 – Strasbourg, France
- March 10-13 – Barcelona, Spain
- March 14-16 – Valencia, Spain
- March 17-18 – Madrid, Spain
- March 19 – Toledo, Spain
- March 20-21 – Granada, Spain
- March 22 – Cordoba, Spain
- March 23-25 – Sevilla, Spain
- March 25-27 – Paris, France
- April 3-6 – East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- April 7-10 – New York City, U.S.A.
- April 17 – Luxembourg
- April 30-May1 – Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- May 12-20 – Greek island hopping: Crete (Chania, Heraklion, Elafonisi) and Santorini
- May 26-27 – Frankfurt, Germany
- June 7-9 – Cologne, Germany
- June 16 – Metz, France
- July 5-7 – Duesseldorf, Germany
- August 17 – Nancy, France
- August 20-27 – London, Bath, Cambridge, West Sussex, U.K.
- August 27-30 – Bruges and Blankenberge, Belgium
- August 31-Sept. 2 – Leuven, Belgium
- Sept. 2-3 – Warsaw, Poland
- Sept 4-6 – Krakow, Poland (Salt Mines, Auschwitz, Krakow)
- Sept. 7-9 – Wroclaw, Poland
- September 10-15 – Berlin, Germany
- September 28-29 – Paris, France
- September 30-October 1 – Interlaken/Jungfrau, Switzerland
- October 1 – Pisa, Italy
- October 1-2 – Florence, Italy
- October 3-4 – Rome, Italy
- October 5 – Venice, Italy
- October 6 – Munich, Germany
- October 7 – Rhine Valley, Germany
- October 8 – Zaanse Schanse, the Netherlands
- October 9-11 – Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- October 11-13 – Bruges, Belgium
- October 14 – Saarbruecken, Germany
- October 15 – Strasbourg, France
- October 16 – Lucerne, Switzerland
- Octoebr 17 – Geneva, Switzerland
- October 18-20 – Paris, France
- November 29-Dec. 2 – Oslo, Norway
- December 19-27 – Zakopane, Poland
Total travelling days in 2013: 119 days