Nothing particularly exciting to report today as it was mostly a train day. We left Copenhagen at 11.44 bound for Hamburg having specifically chosen this train as it goes onto the ferry to cross to Germany. In first class we did get a voucher for a complimentary drink & chocolate which was a nice touch. A few hours down from Copenhagen and the four carriage train slowly rolled onto the ferry where we got off to spend the 45 mins journey looking in the shops &...

Another trilling morning spend doing washing before we had to check out at noon. Our first stop was going inside Germany's biggest cathedral to check out the cavernous space which was amusingly intermittently disrupted by the sound of an angle grinder doing work down in the crypts- how's the serenity!! Next we worked up some energy to climb the 533 steps to the top of the cathedral tower. The steps wound up inside the southern tower tight enough to make you a lit...

Although we had thought we would take the train around 4pm from Amsterdam when we checked the schedule online it seemed there was some track works which would mean taking 3 different trains with tight connections. After our Belgian train experience we decided it would be better to take the 12.34 direct train which meant by the time we had breakfast at the cafe next door (yay! A good size coffee at last with ham & cheese croissant) and checked out it was time ...