Damn! We are in Munich, but it is not October. Luckily they still serve beer in September, so we made it our mission to taste test a few just in case they needed any advice on what to serve next month during the mother of all beer parties. Last year over seven million people attended the 16 day Octoberfest, making it the biggest public festival on earth. Munich may be about to be invaded by thousands of party animals for their beerfest, but their bigger concern...

In the 1960s the Beatles came to Hamburg to seek fame and fortune. A century earlier my ancestors departed from here to seek theirs. We arrived in Hamburg by train from Copenhagen, which was an interesting journey in itself. The train follows a scenic route over many Danish bridges and has to go onto a ferry to make the crossing onto the Jutland Peninsula. We arrived at the Hamburg central station, which is massive and reminded us a lot of Berlin, and found our...