PAUL We arrived in Munich on July 5 without accommodation. We had arranged another couchsurfing set up, but we hadn't been given the address or contact details of our hosts and so we ended up doing a quick run around to find a hostel with a couple of free beds. As luck would have it we ended up with what were probably the last two hostel beds near the train station that night, and we ended up staying in the same hostel for the rest of the week. The next day was...

LISA Heidelberg was our second couchsurfing experience and it was wonderful. We surfed with Leah, a young American girl who has been working and living there for 7 months after years of on and off travel. We got on really well and had some great chats about the city, travel, surfing, life, church and embarrassing Americans. Arriving in the late afternoon we went for a wander along the main street which may be the longest pedestrian street in the world and climbe...