Greetings, Internet Stranger! I’m Stella Jane, and welcome to 24 hours in Geneva! Fun fact: I actually worked in Geneva one summer as a teenager. Yes, really. While other teens were lifeguarding or scooping ice cream, I was wandering the Old Town, assisting with fondue parties (a very serious professional responsibility), sampling what can only …
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Greetings, Internet Stranger! I’m Stella Jane, and welcome to 24 hours in Zurich, Switzerland! Now, I’ll be honest with you—Zurich was not originally on my “must-see, can’t-miss, life-changing” list. It was more of a strategic layover between Salzburg and Geneva. A geographical compromise. A “well, I suppose we stop here” situation. And then… the lodging. …
Greetings, Internet Stranger! I’m Stella Jane, and welcome to 24 hours in Salzburg, Austria! Tell me—have you ever woken up, checked the news, and thought, “Hmm. The world could use a little more… magic?” Same. Fortunately, Salzburg exists, quietly minding its business like a storybook that wandered off the shelf and became a real place. …
Greetings, Internet Stranger! I’m Stella Jane, and welcome to 24 hours in Vienna! Now tell me—when you hear “Vienna,” what’s the first thing that pops into your head? (I am, with great discipline, ignoring one particular uncle who is absolutely yelling “Vienna sausages” into the void as we speak.) Freud? Mozart? Powdered wigs drifting through …
Greetings, Internet Stranger! I’m Stella Jane, and welcome to 24 hours in Munich—the third German city on my personal “let’s see what’s going on over here” tour, following stops in Hamburg earlier this trip and Berlin the year before. And before I arrived, every German (and every person living in Germany) gave me the exact …
Greetings, Internet Stranger! I’m Stella Jane, and welcome to 24 hours in Hamburg—a city I assumed would be peak Germany. I mean, come on. It’s the second-largest city in the country. It’s a major port. Even the name feels aggressively German when you say it out loud. JAWOHL. HAMBURG. But here’s the plot twist: Hamburg …