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Three Men on the Bummel follows in this vein.

Derrick Van Bummel - the local schoolmaster and later a member of Congress.

Take away the bicycles, and it is as near to the meaning of ein Bummel as one can get.

The word 'Bummel'

When asked by one of the characters in the book "how would you translate [bummel]," the narrator replies:

A bogtrotter, rambling, on the bummel.

Three Men on the Bummel at Internet Archive (illustrated)

Little von Bummel (1925)

Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome (1900).

"Where's Van Bummel, the schoolmaster?"

The same characters take a bicycle tour of Germany in the follow-on story "Three Men on the Bummel" and it's just as funny.

Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel (1974)

-- Braudribnob's on the bummel?

The Bummel is a German river ["Don't Get Your Titles in a Twist!"

D. C. Browning writes "The title must be puzzling to many readers, for 'bummel' will not be found in English dictionaries."

Both also give the German Bummel (noun) or bummeln (verb) as the origin of the word 'bum' in all its chiefly American senses.

In 1898, a short stay in Germany inspired Three Men on the Bummel, the sequel to Three Men in a Boat.

Three Men on the Bummel (also known as Three Men on Wheels) is a humorous novel by Jerome K. Jerome.

In Jerome K. Jerome's novel Three Men on the Bummel, the characters start their journey in Fenchurch Street station.

In the children's book Fungus the Bogeyman by Raymond Briggs (1977), the saddle of Fungus's bicycle is called a bummel, and is partly responsible for the vehicle's propulsion.

Bummel describes planetary consciousness as integral, insofar as it does not conflict with other levels of social identity, but instead is a holistic perspective on humanity and the planet as a whole.

Both The Chambers Dictionary and the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary do list 'bummel' in precisely Jerome's sense (a stroll or leisurely journey).

For your German trip, how about either or both of Jerome K. Jerome's German excursions: Diary of a Pilgrimage and Three Men on the Bummel?

Behind this nagging uncertainty was the heroic struggle of Senator Breaux Bummel, the Gasoline Purchaser's Friend, to hold any new gas tax to a maximum of 4.3 cents per car.

Because of the overwhelming success of Three Men in a Boat, Jerome later published a sequel, about a cycling tour in Germany, titled Three Men on the Bummel.