GERMANY'S BLACK FOREST: Fly to Frankfurt, then drive 2 ½ hours to Enzklosterle. Daily 2-euro fee for all visitors 18 and over, which covers free use of Black Forest trains and buses, plus ...

THE FAIRY TALE version of Germany still exists, more than anywhere else, in the Black Forest. Villages of half-timbered houses dot deep valleys in the shadow of mountainsides thick with spruce and ...

In Germany’s southwest corner, the Black Forest (“Schwarzwald”) is a range of hills stretching east of the Rhine River. Ancient Romans found the thick forests here inaccessible and ...

At Schramberg’s Car and Clock World in Germany’s Black Forest, a mannequin demonstrates the clock-marketing techniques of the 1950s. ( PETER_NEVILLE-HADLEY ) ...

On a working trip to Germany, he visited Ulm, a city near the Black Forest, going from bakery to bakery in search of the cake. But no one served it — the owners all said it was passé.

ENZKLOSTERLE, Germany — The Black Forest gets its name from a canopy of trees so dense that the woods seem dark, pierced only by shafts of sunlight. Mushrooms sprout across the damp forest floor.