I've let myself be tempted by the recent astonishingly low prices for trans-Atlantic air tickets, and booked myself to Europe for the 10 days of the North American Thanksgiving break (16-26 Nov.). Now I wonder: any little "peripatetic"s going on that I might join? In a bit more detail, my arrival/departure airport will be Frankfurt, and I imagine passing (by rail) along the "circle" passing through Frankfurt, Cologne/Aachen, Belgium (Liege/Louvain/Brussels/Antwerp), France (Amiens/Paris/Lyon), Italy (Torino/Milano), Freiburg, Frankfurt -- maybe "counterclockwise" as listed above, or maybe clockwise instead. Nor any guarantee I'll actually pass through all of the places mentioned. But if you are in or near one of them and would like to have me try to visit, do let me know, please, before my departure 11/16/2001. For contact during the period 17-25.11.2001 while I'm in Europe, a GSM phone-call or SMS will reach me, if you use +1 203 606 3131, as will e-mail to <2036063131@voicestream.net> , which gets retransmitted to the phone as an SMS (so: best stay under 125 char.). Very short notice, I know -- until the tickets reached me, yesterday, I wasn't really sure I'd be doing this, after all. Hope to see some of you!