This one's actually a no-brainer, and here's why: Vienna is flat-out boring. Seriously, no offense to the Viennese, but for the most part it's just dull and lifeless. Don't get me wrong; there's a lot of fancy stuff everywhere and the people are very friendly, but it lacks a certain je ne sais quoi. That all being said, there were two big highlights that made it a worthwhile trip (just not worth 3 nights): 1) The Belvedere Palace Museum. It had a big exhibit on Gustav Klimt, who is from Vienna, and is also the permanent home of his ''The Kiss,'' [View Full Entry]

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OK I have more time to write this now, and I'm feeling a little more patient towards the German keyboard, but there's still no way I can begin to describe everything I want to from the past 2.5 days. I'll just have to settle for a whirlwind summary to accompany my whirlwind tour so far. On Sunday we started off with a morning in Rothenberg, which felt like what would grow if you could take some German and plant it somewhere. It was just so classic. The town was ancient - I think I read it's heyday was in the late [View Full Entry]

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Well hello! After an extensive gap, I'm back to relate more of my travels! Here's an update! After I finished Uni in Australia, I came back and graduated from my beautiful Maryville College (which I heartily miss!). As a graduation present to myself, I took myself over to Europe for a little over a month! I saw Scotland, England, Ireland, Wales, France, Luxembourg, Germany, Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands. It was wonderful! Top two cities were probably Scotland and Berlin for beauty and history and the good times I had there. After a year of internships and working hard I was [View Full Entry]

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Hello from the Fatherland, we,ve had a lovely couple of days in munich. Our train from Paris arrived on time but unfortunately we were poorly rested after some anglo-deutsch disagreements about whether the couchette windows should be open. The air conditioning was broken and therefore it was like a sauna in hell on the top bunks, unfortunately Frasiers german cousins did not quite comprehend why we wanted the window open and furthermore why we both kept getting up to leave the couchette!! Anyway on saturday evening after a nice walk around the city we found ourselves at the Löwenbräu brewe [View Full Entry]

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Hello! I'm here in Nuremberg, arrived safely and everything. I'm trying to type on a german keyboard and it's extremely frustrating so I won't say much, just to let everyone know I'm here. Went out and had a streudel for lunch and a bratwurst dinner. Haven't slept in about 34 hours, so hopefully will get around to that soon. Hopefully I'll have more when I can type better! [View Full Entry]

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We flew from Barnaul to Moscow and then onto Munich Germany, which was a bit of a homecoming for me. I lived in Munich while my dad was stationed there from 1990-1992. I was 12 and 13 years old and then in nearby Augsburg for another 4 years. It was comforting that our first destination was a friendly place and not only that, we had a hotel reservation. Life couldn't, and probably wouldn't be much more stable. Radler - The first night in Munich I introduced Maria to a drink I knew she'd love, which was a Radler. It's a mix [View Full Entry]

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Today was lame. We hopped on a train to Nuremberg and discovered that the automated restaurant was closed and then spent too long on trains and just went to Berlin. Now we're in this lame hostel and we have to sleep in the same room as daddy and some lamo people who aren't even here yet at 11 pm so will probably be super annoying and loud. [View Full Entry]

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Today we visited the Dachau Concentration camp remains from world war two. It was very interesting and very sobering. Some 200,000 people died in Dachau from 1933-1945. There are now a number of memorial buildings and sculptures on the site of the camp set amongst the remaining buildings, which include barracks, SS buildings, cell block, gas chambers and crematorium. It’s unbelievable what the prisoners were put through in the camp and that mankind can be so cruel to his fellow human race. We ended up spending the whole day at the camp going around the different sites and looking throu [View Full Entry]

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Tonight we are writing from in our car beside the lake near Fussen watching another thunder storm - so much for summer weather! We packed up camp this morning in Munich and decided to head into the city centre - ummm....yip, that was another mission - you see the Germans, besides driving fast and being a kind-of rude race of people, like to have signs spontaneously along stretches of road which seems to stop when you get to an important intersection. So you start following signs to the ‘zentrum’ and then all of a sudden you’re lost in who-knows-where with not [View Full Entry]

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Written by Daniel: I can’t believe how fast these Germens drive. I drive down the Autobahn at what I think is a pretty good pace and there’s people flying past me like I’m a granny in a mobility scooter. The speed limit seems like it’s more of a suggestion than a limit. It’s unbelievable! Today we made good progress on the travelling front and made it all the way to Munchen. Monique is definitely getting better at navigating and map reading and I think I’m getting better at driving on the wrong side, changing gears with my right hand, indicating with [View Full Entry]

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