Now this is when it starts to get slightly boring for me as I have already written 4 parts to this vacation and it just doesn't seem to end! I do have to complete what I started.. So literally, the next HALF of our vacation is going to be compressed in one single post.
From Berlin, we took an early morning train to Dresden. Walked around the city for like 30 mins and then took a bus from there to Praha - back to small towns with cobbled streets. Prague was extremely crowded. Tourists all over the place. We did the usual old town and clock tower on day one and castle the next day. Took some photos around Charles Bridge and then boarded the night bus to Vienna.
The bus company - Student Agency, was awesome. They had in-bus entertainment with movies and TV shows. The staff also offered hot chocolate / coffee. But in exchange, dropped us at a random place in Vienna at 4.30am. So we checked into a hotel for like half a day, got some sleep and walked around the city. It was all the same now - city center, palaces, museums and cathedrals. We changed our objectives - Sachertorte and Viennese coffee! We planned our tour in the city around these.
Quite bored with Vienna, we decided to head to Bratislava the next day. This city was a huge surprise for us. It was a dead city. We could literally count the number of people on a Saturday mid-day! In less than 2 hours, we decided to head back. We reached Schonbrunn palace that afternoon, had a look around and then it was time to catch the bus to Munich.
Day one - we did the free tour. It was awesome. Our tour guide, Blake, was a quarter-back with the Munich Cowboys. He did a fantastic job. After the tour, I headed towards the BMW Museum. Came back in the evening and then met Blake for a Beer Tour! That finished around 11pm. The next morning we had the Disney Castle tour with Blake again. Rain played spoilsport but overall it was still good. The next day we spent a few hours at the Deutsches Museum - one of the best technical museums in the world. Sadly, due to lack of funds, most of their exhibits are in German. After a point we got bored and walked out.
Next stop was Freiburg - capital of the Black Forest. We got there by night and decided to head to Triberg the next day. Spent the day hiking up the waterfall - wasn't any great at all but apparently this place is a big attraction. Then tried the original black forest cake.
The next day, our stop was Heidelberg - the most beautiful place after Berlin. This university town is famous for its one mile long shopping road. Whatever time was left between walking out of shoe shops was used to see parts of the old town.
With Heidelberg done, our tour was coming to a close. We took the train to Frankfurt, spent the next day walking around the city and boarded the flight back. I could have detailed this post a bit more but its just taking a lot of time. Hopefully the photos will have a better story!
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