So I totally forgot to take a picture of Koln (Cologne) cathedral with my phone so it's a random picture of locks on a bridge in Koln from my guidebook. My trip to Koln started badly- I still don't know how I did it but I got on the wrong train. It was going to Munich lol. I ended up in Nurnberg after 4 hours on the train. Nurnberg is 3.5 hours from Koln haha. Sooo dumb but seriously I checked the schedule, saw Koln listed, went to that platform, saw it was leav...

Hamburg has more bridges than Venice. Crazy! It's sort of an industrial city so I planned for one night there. As soon as I got to Hamburg I headed for their city hall/ parliament called Rathaus. There are several city states in Germany and Hamburg is one of them, meaning they have a senate etc. The tour was good. First of all they let you take pictures with flash for free!! (not usual) The original building burned down in the great fire of 1842, which destroyed ...

Berlin, Berlin... For 4 days it was 15 degrees, wet and windy. Just awful weather. Jeans and a jacket everyday. It put a damper on things. The city itself is awesome. It has a chill atmosphere, there is plenty of graffiti and the memory of east versus west still lingers. I was definitely excited to see what's left of the Berlin wall so that's the first thing I did. One section has been made into a memorial and there is a free museum nearby. It's shorter and thinn...