Intent on bucking my recent trend and actually having breakfast today, I set my alarm for about 8am this morning, thinking that would leave me plenty of time to get up, get ready, packed, and to the station in plenty of time to consume some food before my train left bound for Amsterdam at 9:46am. In retrospect, we all know that was never on the cards. Retrospectively too, that sentence I just wrote is probably the longest first sentence of any of my entries so fa...

For once, I didn't wake on my own avail to the excitement of a favourable time difference back home this morning. Oh no, not this morning! At 5:00am the sleep-wrecking ball that is my alarm ploughed its way through my dreams, leaving the land of nod decimated in its wake. It was for good reason though, at least I hoped it was, because it was AFL Grand Final day back home, and I was intent on having a good time experiencing the atmosphere of it in a country on the...

A lifelong dream was going to come true today. That is if by lifelong you think I mean ever since I saw an article in a model railway magazine about five years ago. Maybe that's not as big a deal as lifelong, but even still, it was pretty much the sole reason I decided to come to Hamburg - to see Miniature Wonderland! It's funny; when we decided we would plan to come to Europe all those years ago, in the back of my mind I always had this desire to come to Hamburg...

I woke up to the sound of rain this morning, which was annoying because I had to be all backpackery again today. Rain was just gonna rub it in that much more. Or for the more pun appreciative, put a dampener on things. Gee I crack myself up. Lucky my train to Hamburg didn't leave till 11:51am so I had a bit of time before I had to be at the station. With any luck the rain would stop by then. Luck must've really been on my side because it stopped much earlier than...

I woke up with a real sense of anticipation this morning. I was going to Oktoberfest again. Not only that, but I was going to remember having pork knuckle today. There was no way it could be anything but an amazing day! I know you're all jealous already! Once again I made a strategic decision to skip breakfast - some might think that's a bit foolish, but when faced with going to a festival absolutely full of native food and heaps of other choices, or a general co...