Today was our day for exploring Munich and thankfully it had put on a beautiful sunny day for us. One thing that Germany lacks is a corner store culture as even with all our walking around yesterday we could not find a supermarket or convenience store to get some instant coffee as they didn't provide it at the hotel. I had cereal but was on the hunt for coffee once we stepped out the door. We first wandered around the corner to the Theresienwiese gardens where Ok...

Another day of train travel, this time just under 6hrs to Munich. The train left Prague at 9.15 so we had most of the day watching the countryside go by before arriving into Munich a bit after 3pm. We had chosen a hotel which had a kitchenette as well as a guest laundry so the afternoon was spent doing washing. Finally a bit after 6pm we went for a wander towards the old town walking down the long pedestrian shopping street & around Our Lady's church before f...

This morning we made our way to the Hauptbahnhof for a 10.46 train to Dresden just over 2hrs away. Once we arrived it was only a short walk across the square to our hotel which excitedly had a fridge but didn't have tea & coffee in the room- a bit underwhelming for a 4 star hotel especially as our non-smoking room also smelt of smoke. With only the afternoon to explore we set off after a quick lunch of Thai curry. Most of Dresden was destroyed during bombing ...

We had planned to take the cheap hop on hop off bus from Alexanderplatz but after having a tasty bagel breakfast with almost Melbourne quality coffee we couldn't find the stop for it so instead we walked down to Check point Charlie where we were going to go into the museum but there was a whole street corner of information & historical boards which pretty much covered the same topics so after reading up on the division of Berlin we went back further in time t...

Planning to make the 11am free walking tour which left from the Brandenburg gate we walked past Alexanderplatz, past Museum Island & down Unter de Linden and despite arriving ten minutes late we managed to tag onto the back of a tour taken by an Aussie guy. The first stop was the Holocaust Memorial which is made up of over 2000 grey blocks set in rows on an undulating open space so that as you walk through the columns are different heights. It's an interestin...