So Copenhagen wasnt quite what we expected, and not in a good way. It was a very normal big city and really wasnt that exciting. It is a nice city and had a lot of pedestrian walkways and some nice paths along the lake, but there just wasnt anything that really stuck out. One thing about Copenhagen that is different, everybody rides bikes, their bike lanes are as big as the streets. Ive never seen so many bikes in my life. Everywhere you go theres more bikes...

Our next stop on our journey north was in Hamburg. Hamburg is a port city so its very industrial and not necessarilly a good looking city. There are a lot of cathedrals to visit so we did the whole sight seeing thing in the morning. Hamburg was one of the cities that was absolutely leveled during World War II so we went to a memorial for the war and saw pictures of the city in ruins after the bombings. The memorial museum was actually underneath a destroyed cathe...

We just stopped into Frankfurt for lodging, we`re working our way up towards Scandinavia and we wanted to break up the train ride from southern Germany. Its a very American-style city and very business oriented, so it wasnt that spectacular to see. In the morning we took about a one hour tour of the old city but much of the city was bombed during the war and not a lot remained.

We made a quick stop in Triberg to see a little more of the Black Forest. Triberg is located in the heart of the forest so we got a better feel of the area. The two biggest cuckoo clocks in the world were supposed to be here but it turned out that they were both several miles outside town, so thanks to their tourist office for lying to us about that. We didnt see either. However, we did see the largest waterfall in Germany, but it was really just a mountain strea...

So we're in the Black Forest, which is pretty much just a normal forest, but the city of Freiburg is really medieval-ish, or however else you'd say that. Lots of cobble stone streets here and the old part of the city is what I expected of Germany. This is a mid-sized city but one of my favorites for a city this size, there are pedestrian walkways everywhere, lots of really nice trams throughout the city, and bikes everywhere, no one seems to use a car here. The o...