Day 1: After a quick hour and a half plane ride over France & Belgium we landed in Berlin on Friday evening at about 6:30pm local time. Quickly snapping into travel mode we bought 5 day travel cards and headed for the bus depot to catch the local bus into the city. Arriving at our apartment 20 minutes later than scheduled we immediately got a sense of the German people's punctuality, as our host was practically hopping from one foot to the other to show us t...

Hallo from Munich!! We arrived here in the early evening of the 19th to a welcome of torrential rain to accompany us on our walk to our accommodation. After arriving at the flat (another Airbnb place) looking like a couple of drowned rats, we met our host Marcus, a nice guy with another great apartment and whom we barely saw during our stay which made a nice change from packed hostels! The first couple of days we explored the city on foot and bike. We saw the h...