Berlin

Berlin. The last stop. Wow. Where the heck did the time go?

As I mentioned a bit ago, I decided to cut my trip short for a multitude of reasons. I burnt out pretty quickly. I probably should have taken some time just after graduation to just sleep and things before I took off on this adventure, but you live and you learn. I’m still perfectly happy with having traveled for 6 weeks and there isn’t a single place that I say “boo, I wish I’d gotten to go to X before I left” – and I think that’s the ideal point to wrap up my European Adventure.

I knew coming into Berlin that it was going to be a much larger city than what I’d seen during the rest of my trip, but I really wasn’t expecting it to be this modern. It was a lot like New York City at points, but less crowded and generally more pleasant (though drivers are just about the same). I guess it makes sense though, since the figure is something like 70% of the city was destroyed during WWII.

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Munich

The trip to Munich was short and sweet. We made two pit stops: the first in Lucerne and the second in Liechtenstein.

Lucerne is probably a very cute little town, but since we were there on a Sunday morning and there had been a festival that weekend, the town was pretty much shut down and it smelled of urine and vomit. Fun times…

Liechtenstein was just a stop for funsies – just so we can say we’ve been there. I think we stopped for all of 2 hours, enough to grab some lunch and, if we wanted to pay the 2 Euro, get our passports stamped (I did it. It’s about time I got another stamp!). It, too, was a cute little town (err..country?). Definitely more lively than Lucerne, but still swamped with tourists.

We stayed at the Wombat’s hostel in Munich. It’s in a great location and they have a nifty little common area in their “winter garden” – free wifi, hammocks, and lounge chairs, and closed off from the elements but still feels like it’s outside. I was a fan.

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