-- By Tom Phillips
I hadn't meant to go back to Germany so soon after my first visit last year, but Pakistan and India are playing games of "gotcha" again, and the Paks closed their airspace the day I was to fly. At least that's what United Airlines told me, so I wound up flying a different route, with a twelve-hour layover in Frankfurt Airport.
Last year's Tour of Fear cured me of my Germanophobia, convincing me that the Germans have done a much better job of repenting for their past crimes than we in the US. But nothing prepared me for just how comfortable I felt among the end-of-summer German holiday crowd in Frankfurt.
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Last year's Tour of Fear cured me of my Germanophobia, convincing me that the Germans have done a much better job of repenting for their past crimes than we in the US. But nothing prepared me for just how comfortable I felt among the end-of-summer German holiday crowd in Frankfurt.