Time to catch up

Well this should be fun, I haven't written in a while. Well after Copenhagen Germany. We started in Berlin. It was certainly a City with a lot of history, and history that was easier to relate to because it was fairly recent. We got to see what was left of the Berlin wall, which was cool because it was covered in artistic graffiti, a lot of the graffiti was about unity or about the wall itself. Someone had also written that the loved Josh, I assumed that Josh to be me so I took a picture. We took a free walking tour the next day and that worked out really nicely. In the free tours the tour is working for tips, so they'll do what they can to make it good. The guy we had seemed to know a lot, it was worthwhile. We were able to cross off most of the tourist attractions with just his tour. We saw where Hitlers Bunker was, where he killed himself. Also the Jewish memorial, and Checkpoint Charlie. Charlie doesn't mean anything, its just the army way of saying 'C', Alpha, Bravo, Charlie etc. With taking this tour you got a discount on the pubcrawl at night, so we did that, met a bunch of Canadians and probably had too much to drink. That made for a slow morning for me at least.
After Berlin we headed to some of the Bavarian Cities, to try to get off the regular tourist path. We went to Nuremberg first, It was cool because it was where the trials of all the high ranking Nazis took place for the crimes against humanity. We got to go into the courtroom and see some of the trials on video. Most of them got the death penalty, some got life imprisonment and one of to somehow escape with only a few years. A bunch of them didn't even make it to trial because they had already committed suicide. We also went to the Nuremberg museum, which was mostly about Hitler and the Nazis. It was interesting to see that Hitler was not very successful in life before his rise to power. We also got to stand where he stood giving speeches for the Nazis rallies. It was a little eerie.
The next destination was Wurzburg, It was time for a little relaxation time, so we just had a few beers, sat outside and enjoyed the nice views of a relatively small city. Although because of our laziness we decided that we would rent some bikes the next day and tour the city that way. It was cool because we went to the top of a castle and could see everywhere.
Our next destination was Rothenburg. Another Burg city.... or wait, we missed our transfer on the train and ended up in Treuchlingen, oops. We quickly as we could found a hotel and negotiated (with bad English and bad German) a reasonable price. It was nice to have a room with less than 8 people in it. That night was a good night to have a good rest, because the next city was Munich, which meant Oktoberfest!
By the time we got to Munich it was mid-afternoon. Too late to get a good spot in one of the tents at Oktoberfest, so we did a quick city tour. In the spirit of the fest our minds were easily swayed into stopping in to a beer haus, and having a litre. Litre beers hit you hard, we found our way to another busier beer house and decided to get some more practice in for the next day, three drinks in and we were feeling good. It was easy to fall asleep that night. We got up for Oktoberfest early enough, and arrived at 10:30am.... we barely got a spot. It was a German holiday, Re-unification day, so there were already a bunch of Germans drunk before 11. At first it seemed like it would be tough to meet a lot of people because you were cramped and you didn't want to leave or else you might lose your spot, and if you don't have a spot you don't get served beer. But people came and went and we made a lot of friends quickly, drinking games and drinking songs. Andrew and I realized the next morning... we forgot to eat... all day. I didn't know i was capable of not eating. It definitely lived up to my expectations. Thats where we ended our Germany tour. Onward and upward... and eastward.