Berlin is a really cool city. I stayed in a hostel that was outside of the downtown which was a shame because I think there would have been a lot of fun had downtown. Regardless, I did enjoy the city quite a bit. My first day, I took the metro all the way outside of Berlin to the small town of Oranienburg which hosted the first German concentration camp by the name of Sachsenhausen. The location was not always a camp. In fact, the area was essentially taken ...

So a few hours into the road trip, decided that I would stop in Cologne. I'm not exactly sure why other than the fact that I had heard of the city. So there I arrived with my backpacks, no ability to speak German and no idea where I was going or where I was staying. But everything worked out. I found a reasonably priced hostel close to the heart of the city. Cologne proved to be a very nice city with lots of shops downtown. The main tourist attraction is t...