14 Feb.

• Boston to Munich-"We're Flying over Ireland and London-I guess I have to resist the urge to jump off there."

15 Feb.

Marien Platz
• City Hall and the Glockenspiel
• St. Peter's Bell Tower-There is a great view to watch the Glockenspiel.
• Emperor's Residence
• Freedom Arch
• A few Churches
• Augustiner Beir Haus-"The weiss beir was quit possibly the best beer I've ever tasted."

16 Feb.

• Olympic Village
• Science Museum

17 Feb.

• Neuschwanstein-"Today we went to Neuschwanstein, which is the big castle about two hours from Munich, you see in all the pictures. When we left the sun was shining, though it was cold. By the time we got to Füssen it was snowing. I was kind of bummed at first, but I realize now it was better for two reasons...it wasn't rain and it looked pretty on the trees and the castle. We had to walk up the hill to get there, but it was fun. The castle was built by Barvarian King Ludwig II...we got an English tour, which was a pleasant surprise. After the tour, we walked down a snow covered path to a bridge for the perfect Kodak moment."
  

18 Feb.

• Train to Salzburg
  "The streets with the shops are so cute. No cars-but narrower than downtown crossing.(In Boston) Just like the pictures of European cities. They had all the fancy medieval looking signs and what do you think we found among them...McDonalds. We decided not to eat there-ever!
• University Church
• St. Peter's Church and Cemetery
• Palace Garden's
• Dom(a really big church)
• Steps leading up to a monastery where there was a nice view of the city.

19 Feb..

• Hohensalzburg Fortress-"The giant fortress that over looks the city we went up in the cable car and walked around a bit. Then we bought tickets for the tour in English, which also included the museum. It was well worth it...The fortress was built by the Arch Bishop in the 11th century. Various Arch Bishops added on as necessary. One had a turnip on his coat of arms, no one knows why a turnip, but he put it on everything he had built in the fortress. It seems very silly. We got to see a torture chamber too. The only thing that actually belonged in the fortress was the dungeon, the rest of the stuff came from a castle 10 km away. It was neat anyway. The fortress is the largest in Southern Europe. It was occupied by Napoleon, who removed all the furniture from the staterooms. There was though, a very funny ceramic stove. They use ceramic stoves in Southern Europe instead of fire places. The guide to Neuschwanstein said they were more efficient than fireplaces because they use less fuel(wood etc.) and you don't tend to lose any heat up the chimney. After the tour we walked around a bit on the mountain...we took the lift down."
• Mozart's Birthplace
• Trinity Church
  

20 Feb.

We got around on the U-bahn

• Train to Vienna
• Wandered around the city

21 Feb.

• St. Stephen's-"Not plain but not gaudy either." We climbed to top for a great view of the city.
• Fraud's House
• Hofburg Palace-The palace is huge and contains many things including some government offices. We visited the Museum with arms, weapons, musical instruments and the Royal Jewels.
• Figaro Haus-Where Mozart lived while he was in Vienna."...it was through a gateway, down a brick ally, just like in the movie."

22 Feb.

• State Opera House
• Staterooms of the Hapsburgs
• Historical Art museum
• Hapsburg Collections
• Karlz Platz
• St. Karls Church
• Vienna Dom
• Train ride from Hell to Berlin

"Werder wir Berlin in diesem jahrtausend erreichen?"

Joe pondered: " Which came first, the fact the English speakers are too lazy to learn another language so the others learned it out of necessity, or did the others learn English, so the English speakers said 'why bother.' Blame it on rock 'n' roll."

23 Feb.

• Keiser Wilhelm-Gedachtn-Kirch-Keiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
• Victory Column-"We climbed to the top for a view of the city. It seems every city we go to we have to climb a lot of steps for a great view. Inside there was a little room that gave the history of the column and how the reliefs where taken by the French and later returned during WWII. The French and the British both raised flags there."
• Brandenburg Gate
• Museum at Checkpoint Charlie-"Wow! It is a peace museum now with stories about people who used peaceful means to get what they wanted--->Like Ganhdi and MLK. They also showed a clip of 'Unbearable Lightness of Being' with Daniel Day Lewis and said it accurately depicted the day Prague was invaded. There was also a memorial and stories of successful and unsuccessful escapes over the wall. overall it was a very moving experience."
• Potzdamer Platz-This is where Pink Floyd performed The Wall concert.

24 Feb

• Aquarium
• Berlin Zoo
• Hard Rock Cafe-We went there for dinner because the menu was in English. I had a great veggie burger.
• Irish Pub in Europa Center-Great Guinness!

25 Feb.

• Eastern Berlin-"Eastern Berlin is rather run down and old looking, though they are fixing some things up. Still among the decrepidations(Is that a real word?)are some beautiful old buildings, the state Library, The State Opera House, the Princes University, some museums and some churches.
• Berlin Dom-"Of all the churches we've been in this was the biggest. Most of it was quit beautiful. There was the usual reliefs n the wall and a few paintings etc, not too overdone. There was a gorgeous pipe organ. Then there was the alter. It was a real eye sore. All gold with the Apostles behind it. I mean, God forgive me for saying so , it was ugly!"
• Marx Ingalls Platz
• Neptune fountain
• Twin Churches-The French one is now a restaurant. The German was is being fixed up.
• French Protestant Church-now a museum
• Wassthedwig-Catholic Church of Berlin
• Eastside Gallery-A stretch of the Berlin Wall with Murals painted on them.
• New Rathaus-Where JFK said, "Ich bin ein Berliner." We found a bakery across the street and had one(a Berliner)It's really just a Bavarian cream doughnut with white frosting or powder on top."

26 Feb.

• Charlottenburg Palace-"It's a huge summer palace built by king Frederick for his second wife, Sophia...Though much of it was destroyed during WWII, they did a good job restoring it. everything was beautiful, though it was a bit much for me, though it was still nice to look at."
• Berlin Olympic Stadium

27 Feb.

• ICE Train from Zoo Station back to Munich

28 Feb

• Returned to Boston

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