We spent days in Germany's Black Forest, which supposedly inspired Grimms' fairy-tales. Its cake and hiking trails were great, but I'd skip Triberg.

Plus, it's a hiker's paradise with delicious cake and famous cuckoo clocks. Here's what we loved about our experience in the Black Forest — and two of the mistakes we made. Our hike to monastic ...

Frank Buffalino loves cuckoo clocks, but he concedes  having 50 tiny wooden birds coo-kooing all at once is a bit much. “We ...