Off to Prague today so we were up ready to catch the 9.08 train. It was just over two hours & the journey was very scenic as the railway line ran along the Elbe river almost the whole way. Once we arrived into Prague it was about a 10 min walk to the hotel, passing along the top of Wenceslas square. Unfortunately our room wasn't ready so we left our bags & headed down the square towards the old town stopping to share a pizza for lunch. It certainly wasn't...

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...

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 &...