I went to bed unsure whether we would be spending the day swimming at the Olympic park or seeing the castles at Neuschwantein, but we headed to the castles. We caught a regional train in the morning, and it was about a two hour train ride south to the foot of the alps. The ride …
Breakfast was good. Again, college kids were everywhere. We headed back to Marianplatz to catch a walking tour of the city. Our guide this time was an Irish guy named Keith. He showed us the Marianplatz area, the inside of the Frauenkirche, Odeonsplatz and the palace area, and the Hofbrauhouse. There was a fair amount …
We awoke, checked out, and walked across to the station for breakfast and food for the train. We took a late morning train to Munich, with stops in Fulda and Augsburg along the way. It was another ICE train, and not too full, so we were able to sit around a table, play cards, the …
We rose this morning to a sunny day and a view from our window of Hercules. We are staying in two rooms – which is nice – but breakfast is not included. So we crossed over to the bahnhoff next door and had donuts and bread at a cafe. We then caught a streetcar straight …
Up this morning, breakfast was nice in the common area. We intended to catch the number 11 bus to the station, but it turns out it does not run on Saturday morning, so we had to walk into the station. Luckily we built enough time into the schedule for such a problem, and we made …
We arrived in Copenhagen in the morning. It was still cool out, and we were pretty worn out from three night trains in a row, so we walked to the national history museum. They had a little child’s museum which wasn’t much, and also a section devoted to prehistory, which was ok. The was also …
We arrived in Stockholm very early in the morning – before 7 am. I had assumed that they would let people stay in the cars and sleep in, but they did not. We again had breakfast in the station, changed money, and stashed our bags in a locker. Stockholm turned out to be a really …
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We arrived in Copenhagen mid morning. After getting breakfast at the station and changing money, we left most of our luggage in a locker for the next few days, keeping only a change of clothes and things to take with us to Stockholm the next day. We then crossed the street and spent the day …
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We woke, packed our stuff and went downstairs for breakfast. We then hauled our bags over the cobblestone streets, past the bicycles leaning against the canal bridges, up to the central train station, which turned out to be most of an hour’s walk. At the station we stashed our bags into a locker (except for …
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Had some trouble sleeping last night. A mosquito was bothering me all night and keeping me awake. Breakfast was just ok – egg and orange juice were ok, but the toast wasn’t very good. The girls liked it pretty well, though. We walked over to the national monument in the center of Amsterdam and waited …