He Did Follow U2 in Europe

Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 10.03.05 | 9:00 AM ET

The Boston Globe’s Tom Haines, recently named travel journalist of the year by the Society of American Travel Writers, followed U2 on tour in Europe this summer from Vienna to Chorzow, Poland to Berlin. His unconventional story about the trip, Wide awake in Europe with U2, appeared in Sunday’s paper.

Here’s a taste from the intro: “Legs climb high. Steel sways. Angels do not speak. A dove waits. Beneath the windows of the cathedral dome: Vienna. Height and history conspire and spin. A stage where Wagner rang. A balcony where Hitler sang. Guard towers watched. Ideas and iron knocked the city down. Skyscrapers waltz. The Danube is not blue.”