I left Munich early this morning with the group, for the comparatively short drive to St Goar to put the group on their Rhine River cruise, which unfortunately, as their tour leader I don't get to go on. We reached St Goar and did a parachute drop (prepare the group, park illegally, shoo group off bus, point them in the right direction, get back on the bus and Junior Birdman the hell outta there). I had appointed one of the more organized members of the group...

Three countries in one day, that's a bit nuts even for me. I started my day in Venice with breakfast at the hotel and then as usual herded 46 people onto a big red bus. I then settled in for the long drive to Germany through the Italian Alps and past the Dolomites. We stopped for a break in the national park and the mountains were some of the most spectacular I've ever seen. The Dolomites seemed to rise from no where and I was standing on the edge of the la...

Ok what the hell do I do with 12 hours in Berlin! I actually opted to do an organised tour for once which was free. I marched myself down to Unter den Linden U-bahn station and waited for the guide at Starbucks. There were quite a lot of us and our guide was an Irish girl named Avril. Our first stop was the Brandenburg gate which was a real sight and the Riechstag, German parliament house. We also saw where the Berlin wall used to actually cut off where modern r...

After my visit to Wiesbaden, I got off the train at the city of Mainz. Not expecting to see much, I soon found out that the place was quite spectacular. It had its very own castle which looked very impressive. The city is also right on the River Rhine, which I've now crossed. It was really beautiful standing on the bridge over the river and looking at the city, which is full of churches and other impressive buildings on the opposite bank. I got across the river ...

Today after a lot of farting around in Frankfurt this morning I went off to see Wiesbaden. It's not too far and is not really a city of any substance, but it made a nice day trip, and the train ticket also included the city of Mainz. I got the U-Bahn at around 1pm and it took about half an hour to get there. While I was posting some postcards, this little old lady came up to me and started rambling at me in German, I told her I didn't understand and she picked u...