Germany has been wonderful! We met up with Marney's roommate from Oldfields, Felicitas and her family. They live in Bonn and showed us around the former West Germany Capital. We did a boat trip on the Rhine as well as the cathedral in Cologne. On Tuesday we drove down to Nurnburg where we visited a historical village- the Willaimsburg of Germany...

27th September Arrive in Munich, eat some breakfast after a epic bus journey, dump our stuff in allocated tents then jump aboard the bus and head to the Oktoberfest grounds... Arriving at around 11am. Drink all afternoon and evening... mmmm beer!! Take in the sights that is the Oktoberfest fairground And then somehow manage to make my way back t...

Instead of our original plans to take the ferry into we managed to extend our stay on the island by another night and book a sea plane transfer directly to the airport. We planned to get to the airport 2hrs ahead just in case any problems arose but needn't have worried. Unlike yesterday the morning turning out to be calm with a light drizzle but...

It's our last night in Munich and it's been our favorite spot so far. We got in yesterday morning on a night train from Berlin and, thanks to the lack of a Munich map in our travel book, we wandered around at 8 in the morning in a drizzle trying to find the hostel which was just outside of the train station! Yesterday we saw the clock at the Mar...

Scott- Well, today was another great, adventurous day. We met up with Jim's uncle, who works in Germany, and he gave us a tour of the surrounding countryside and smaller towns. He took us to the town of Garmish where we did some hiking up into the alps, from which we had a great view of the town. The town itself demonstrated the slower-paced, re...

Our Lufthansa flight started in San Francisco, California, and traversed the North Pole...during a quiet moment I peeked out behind the window curtains and saw a most wondrous sight...ice floes all together, and then larger land masses with icy hills...glad we were warm and cozy!

Munich meant the end of our trip... which was sad. We got to see the Glockenspeil and the Hofbrahaus, as well as explore in Munich. I walked around with my parents and we found another open air market, which was great for fresh produce and sandwiches, once again. Our last dinner was full of dancing and traditional German food (a whole roasted pi...