Munich, beer capital of the world, and also site of many infamous Nazi events prior to the Second world war. We were blissfully unaware of the dark history here until we took a free walking tour of the city. From Munich Hitler had planned to march to Berlin and overthrow the parliament, after their inability to bring the country out of depression following the first world war. The police found out and blocked the route. A bit of a bloodbath ensued and Hitler fled...

Nurburgring, home to the European Grand Prix, and what a race it was!! It had everything, and finished with Aussie Mark Webber on the podium for only the second time in his career. The day began for us with a champagne buffet breakfast at our hotel in Bonn, where we had met up with Ben and Ann from Hobart, and Ann's sister Di who lives in London. Ben and I had been to Qualifying on Saturday, and seen Webber put in a strong perfomance to qualify 6th. Probably the...

We arrived in Copenhagen a little worried about the hostel that we'd booked. An English guy we talked to had said not to stay there as the bunks are three high, and really close to the next set with no railings so it was easy to fall off. We got there and found the triple bunks of which he had spoken, but lucky for us we were in a smaller dorm and they weren't too close together. After a night there, I soon realised the biggest down-side of the place. Our room ha...

Hi all. We're on the most comfortable 2nd class train we've encountered on the trip so far. It's an express from Stockholm to Malmo where we catch another train to Copenhagen across one of the largest bridges in the world. We had three nights in Stockholm after arriving by boat on Friday morning. The boat turned out to be a bit less of a party than expected. Oh, and I now understand why the cheap cabin we had was cheap - right next to the engines, mak...

At the moment we're on a ship heading for Stockholm. The boat is similar to the Spirits of Tasmania I think (haven't actually been on the new ones) and has a reputation as a bit of a party cruise. Zilla's currently having a little snooze to recover from last night, when we went to the biggest nightclub in Scandanavia. Don't ask me what it's called, but it was a pretty cool place. They were selling 1 euro beers, which were a little flat and didn't taste great but ...