Having jumped on a plane just hours after my last exam, I arrived to meet my Dutch friends and the following day we made our way to Düsseldorf, Germany for the final of the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest. After having watched the event for 13 years I was finally there, getting to see the show live! And after having been in the audience for the UK preselection show two years earlier, I knew that it would be a totally different experience. Despite being loca...

Having retraced our steps back to Basel Airport, we flew to Berlin to explore the German capital. We began by visiting the German Parliament and the Brandenburg Gate, before heading down towards the Topography of Terror, the Berlin Wall and Checkpoint Charlie. On the following day, me and Mum went over to Oranienburg to explore the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. On the final day we went to Berlin Zoo to see Knut and the panda, before...

Taking the trip from Arosa past Lake Constanz, stopping off the get chocolate, we went back through Triberg, Offenburg to Rust as two years previous. This meant that we got to visit Europa-Park once again before the third leg of our adventure, where we crossed the border into Switzerland and France before our flight to Berlin.

Final stop of the adventure was the city of Freiburg. Visited the Schloßberg, playing crazy golf as we looked over the city, and the city centre with the Bächle water channels, before our flight home.

We took the train to Triberg, in the heart of the Black Forest to explore the nature and views, and found one of our highlights to be the Cuckoo clock shop!