Best Western in Cologne? They seem to be everywhere. This one doesn’t even look like a traditional building. It must have been something else first. I wonder what. I don’t think it goes back to the Romans.

Here’s another Best Western in Brussels of all places! This one looks more like a palace than anything that resembles the Best Westerns in the U.S. along the sides of the interstates. The Romans really might have visited here.

This BW looks really modern. It reminds me of Erdman, one of the dorms at Bryn Mawr College where I was a stude

This hotel in Cologne looks like a hotel I stayed at before when I was in Europe back in high school. They haven’t changed much, have they. But then Europe doesn’t.

C’mon now, you’ve got to be kidding me about this BW between Nuremberg and Wurzburg. This is no simple Best Western. It looks like a place where a king might live. Either that or they’re taking a cue from Disney World and turning it into a theme park.

Now this Nuremberg City Center Holiday Inn looks like it’s part of Old Town Nuremberg! I could picture a bunch of gnomes, dwarfs, and medieval types hanging out here in the beer hall. They would be dressed in leiderhosen and would have their own beer steins.

What a way to go! First you take a car to the East Coast. Then you sail across the Atlantic. You hop a car in Hamburg and drive through Belgium to France to hit Dunkirk. Then you drive back through Cologne, Nuremberg, and Weimar to return the car to the airport in Hamburg. This BW International airport hotel is as close as you can get to the airport and still stay at a BW. Then you hop the ship and find that set of wheels parked at the pier in Brooklyn. Wow!