On Friday morning we decided to revisit some of the places Torben had shown us on the walking tour yesterday in order to spend a little more time there. Our first stop was the Holocaust Memorial, which was quite recently completed in 2005 & consists of lots of large, grey, concrete blocks of varying heights set out over a reasonably large piece of land. It's quite an abstract memorial & there has been division amongst the German people regarding opinion...

On Thursday the weather did a complete 180 again, & it was bright & sunny! Nigel even got sun burnt! I know, I know, how did I, the albino Queen of sunscreen, manage to let that happen?? Well I did remind him several times but to no avail! Plus we were walking around in bright, hot sunshine for about 5 hours non-stop so the elements were against him :P We went on a walking tour around Berlin with the tour company who'd taken us out the Sachsenhausen the...

On the first day of summer I nearly died of cold. Actually. I was quite sure that my toes were going to drop off. Thongs were a bad choice of footwear that day! The crazy this is, the day before when we arrived, Berlin was sweltering - it was hot & muggy, & felt very much like being in the middle of a Queensland afternoon storm. By the following morning the rain had stopped & the cold had set in. We took a day trip just out of Berlin to the town ...

Tuesday, the last day of Europe's spring, we said farewell to the old, traditional city of Munich & travelled 7 hours by train to modern, hip & happening Berlin! It was raining & muggy when we got there, but fortunately our hostel was only a hop, skip, & a jump from the metro station after a relatively quick commute from the central train station. By the way, Berlin's central train station is about 5 times as Perth's international airport!! I ac...

On Monday we spent the morning at the Deutsches museum, which is renowned as being one of the highlights of Munich. It's a museum showcasing the successes of science & technology, not only in German history, but also more generally speaking. It's absolutely massive, & there's no way you could make it through the whole thing in a week, let alone in a day, or 3 hours! So instead we settled for a whirlwind tour through the wonders of pharmaceuticals, music...