Germany

It was very pleasant to travel to Germany for a week and enjoy some ruthless German efficiency, which is a far cry from the stifling French bureaucracy as described previously.

We took in Berlin and Munich, and got out to a few different activities.

The best thing that we did was go for a drive in a 'Trabi' the people's car (if you happened to be people from East Germany) which was the pride of East German engineering. With an enormous 500cc two stroke engine, generating a massive 19kw of power, the Trabi truly was the car of its time. It had a four speed column shift gearbox. To make things easier this was the first time that I had had the pleasure of driving on the right hand side of the road. To my credit, I managed not to stall it once despite a really shitty clutch.

Onto Munich we took in a Bayern Munich Champions League game at the Allianz Arena. Which was pretty cool.

Following this we headed out into the Alps to see a couple of castles, and our first real experience of European Winter.

Lastly we headed out to the Munich Olympic site to have a bit of a look around there as well.