Early January and our first weekend trip away for the year was to Berlin. We had an ominous start with a half hour wait (some of it outside in the cold) just to get through passport control at Berlin and then some S-Bahn issues meaning it took us around 2.5 hours to get to our hostel from when we landed. We finally got there and had a bit of sleep before getting up the next day and walking to the Reichstag - The German government building. We had booked ahead so...

For our final Christmas in Europe we decided to spend it in Munich. We had previously been to Munich (both as part of Oktoberfest in 2011 and Darin previously when touring Europe in 2006/2007) and really liked the city. We had around 5 days in the city so enough time to fully explore it. We arrived late at night on our first day so found our hostel and then went to check out the Christmas market in town. We've done our fair share of German Christmas markets now ...

We took our first real leave since we arrived for a four day trip for Oktoberfest in Munich. We had a really early start on the Friday (4:30 am wake up) and flew from London into Stuttgart. There we met our Busabout group and tour leaders and jumped on a three hour bus to Munich. Once we arrived we had a walk around town before having our first stein at the famous Hofbrau beer hall. After Darin displayed his knowledge of German history and geography winning ten...