As the Tour de France kicked off as the Tour d'Irlande at the weekend, the wealthy German's reading matter recommended a few bike-free sojourns in the Irish capital.
Handelsblatt, the Duesseldorf-based business daily, suggested a different kind of tour of Dublin - the whiskey tour, the pub crawl, or the Ulysses tour, taking in the city's literary venues.
Praising the Celtic Tiger for the Irish economy's recent bullishness, the newspaper drew parallels with Germany's once and future capital, Berlin. "The boom is leaving its mark on Dublin. Only in Berlin is the building craze bigger than in Dublin."
But while the Handelsblatt concentrated on conveying a little of the flavour of Dublin, German absorption in the Tour de France generally ignored the setting and concentrated on the defending tour champion, Jan Ullrich, one of the very few contemporary German sporting heroes to hail from the east.
Ullrich's body weight, his new closely-cropped hairstyle and his chances of repeating last year's triumph as the star member of the Deutsche Telekom team are the focus of attention and speculation for the tabloids. Ullrich's Telekom team-mate, Erik Zabel, threatened to upstage the champion yesterday when he took the yellow jersey. The interest in Germany in the tour is enormous. ARD, the main public broadcasting channel, chartered a huge Antonov transport plane, the world's biggest, to ferry in 48 staff and tons of equipment to cover the Irish legs before taking the equipment back to mainland Europe.
Munich's Sueddeutsche Zeitung commented that the weekend launch in Dublin was assured of being "a great spectacle".
"Everything's in order," the paper said. "The Irish Times reporters have got on their bikes and tested the route. Even the rain won't be allowed to ruin the party. Le grand depart in Ireland, don't miss it."