The trip is just about to come to a close, and we're flying out of our third last stop into Amsterdam from Berlin! The train ride to Berlin was really quite beautiful from Prague with lots of sloping mountains, green fields and small villages. As we pulled through Dresden we picked up Andrew (an American) who Nick and I got chatting to on the train. We got to discussing hostels, and it turned out we were both headed the same way when we got to Berlin, but while ...

Today was our first REAL day in Oktoberfest… and what a day… For the first part of the tale I guess you need some back story… our hostel was really nice, but was located on a corner and we were lucky enough to have a balcony room. To assist people with crossing the busy intersection there was a pedestrian crossing which had one of those beeping things to help the blind people. Only this one was a clicking noise… and it only turned off from about 11pm to ...

So, last night was our last night in Zurich, and for the first time Nick and I decided to pre walk the route to the train station so where we knew where we were going. Sounds like a great idea? It had the makings of a great plan - we walked out the route, knew where we were going - it was all going swimmingly. Then came the brilliant idea of pre-buying tickets - this was the downfall of the plan. It was only AFTER I had paid my 6.20 Franc that we realized that yo...