16 items and 16 outfits. What would you add for some more fun (color or pattern)? Have you been to Germany in the fall, and is this appropriate? Thanks for your wisdom!
I’m visiting Germany (and maybe elsewhere) this October for my husband’s 30th birthday! We both love art, design, and history. Budget is not a huge concern for hotels since we’ll be using a lot of accumulated credit card points.
We’re interested in cities with unique atmospheres or urban planning, great museums, and world class architecture (we like buildings from any age except for the international style era). We’re also big hikers (plenty of multi day backpacks in Banff and the Sierras), so we’re interested in any special spots in the Bavarian or Tyrolien Alps that might compare, but with a little less time and gear commitment.
We try to be true minimalist one baggers, so switching locations and checking into and out of hotels is not too difficult. We both (stupidly) prefer to be exhausted at the end of travel in the weird Type 2 Fun way. That said, we don’t want to really overdo it.
Lastly, this is an outline, so I’m interested to hear what’s definitely NOT worth visiting to make the pace a bit more relaxed, or if there’s anything that should be substituted for something else.
Day One: Cologne
*Arrive in Cologne at noon, travel to hotel (in the city center?), find a spot to drink beer, go to the cathedral at dusk
Day Two: Day Trip
*Rent a car at 8am
*Drive to Bruder Klaus Feldkapelle
*Drive to Langen Foundation
*Return car
*Have a fancy-ish dinner (hoping to eat at a Michelin restaurant one night in one city, tbd where)
Day Three: Cologne
*Sleep in
*Wander around Cologne
*Arrive at Kolumba Museum at 12pm
*Head to train station around 4pm
*Arrive in Berlin late at night (11pm-ish)
*Go to hotel and pass out
Day Four: Berlin
*Visit the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe first thing
*Tour the Reichstag / or just go up to the dome
*See the Brandenburg Gate
* Have a picnic lunch in Tiergarten park (or get lunch at Café am Neuen See)
*Visit the Neue Nationalgalerie
*Visit the Topography of Terror or the Gropius Bau pending time
Day Five: Berlin
*Museum Island all day
*Boros Bunker in the evening
Day Six: Day Trip
*Day Trip (Leipzig or Dresden, maybe Potsdam)
*Alternately visit the Jewish Museum and St Agnes, have a chill day in Berlin
Day Seven: Berlin
*Visit the Berlin Wall Memorial in the morning
*Get brunch at House of Small Wonders (if it’s not too touristy?)
*Explore the Mitte Neighborhood (if I have the name right)
*Go to the Feuerle Collection in the evening
*Go to Wax on Bar at night
Day Eight: Berlin
*Go to the East Side Gallery in the morning
*Explore the Kreuzberg neighborhood in the afternoon
*Direct flight in the evening to Budapest or an overnight sleeper train for the bucket list (does anyone have experience with this route? We’d get at least a couchette, but don’t want to be super uncomfortable all night?)
Day Nine: Budapest
*Fisherman’s Bastion in the morning
*Maybe visit the Hungarian National Gallery if we’re not too fatigued of museums at this point
*City Park in the afternoon (Vajdahunyad vára and Hungarian House of Music)
* Széchenyi Thermal Bath
Day Ten: Budapest (Free Day)
*New York Cafe early if it’s not wildly overrated? We care more about the interiors/ambiance, but also don’t love bad coffee
*(We’re not particularly interested in post-war or Cold War history, so we’ll probably just walk around the historic center)
*Rudas Thermal Baths at night (since Gellert will be closed)
*Nighttime boat cruise
Day Eleven: Budapest
*Shoes on the Danube (is it worth seeing this as part of a tour?)
*Hungarian Parliament
*Central Market Hall Lunch
*2.5 hour train ride to Vienna in the afternoon or evening
Day Twelve: Vienna
* Schönbrunn Palace
*Naschmarkt lunch
*Explore in the afternoon
Day Thirteen: Vienna
*Museum of Military History
*Imperial Crypt and St Stephen’s
*Explore the Ringstrasse
Day Fourteen: Day Trip
*Halstatt is beautiful but feels very far away for a day trip?
*Potentially Wachau for biking or a tour of Melk Abbey
Day Fifteen: Munich
*Early Four hour train ride from Munich to Vienna (Do we need to reserve seats? Will they sell out?)
*Arrive to hotel in early afternoon
*Take a 25 min train to Augsburg to see St Moritz church
*Explore Augsburg until sunset
Day Sixteen: Munich
*Visit Dachau
*Spend the whole afternoon in English Garden and drink beer because we’ll be wrecked
Day Seventeen: Day Trip
*Trying to decide between Mittenwald, G-P, Landshut, or Regensburg (Options in case of weather
Day Eighteen: Frankfurt Area
*Train to either Mainz, Speyer, or Heidelberg (any suggestions?)
If you read, or even skimmed this, you are so appreciated! What would you recommend removing or replacing from this list, if this were your trip? We only have a couple things we feel we must do, this is all more of an outline to make sure we have the option/knowledge to group things by proximity, etc.
Now bring on the roasts (or constructive criticisms)!
Hi! My partner and I (early 30’s) are traveling to Europe for two weeks this October. I want some feedback on general pacing and destinations. I originally wanted to include Slovenia for fall colors and quieter cities, but planning out the days, it would obviously involve too much travel time.
The current outline is below. I must preface that I have extensive energy for travel and I enjoy very dense itineraries and don’t mind changing cities; I know most people prefer slow and relaxing vacation, but I genuinely prefer volume and variety.
*Fly into Frankfurt
*2 nights in Cologne (day trip to see architecture by Ando and Zumthor)
*5 nights in Berlin (day trip to either Potsdam or Leipzig?)
*2 nights in Budapest
*3 nights in Vienna (day trip to Bratislava?)
*2 nights in Salzburg (or 2 nights in Innsbruck?)
*1 night in Frankfurt
*Fly out of Frankfurt
I wanted to get some suggestions before I started booking hotels. Is this a good variety of cities? Are they nice in the fall? Do they have nice neighborhoods that feel alive, and not just like a theme park? Is it worth modifying destinations to add Slovenia back in for variety and nature? 4 nights in Berlin is non-negotiable, but Austria and Hungary could potentially be completely swapped out.
We’re both really interested in architecture and design, he loves WWI and WWII history, I love more enlightenment-era history and earlier. We both enjoy beautiful and unique natural landscapes, as well as dense and walkable cities. We will go out of our way to see superlative architecture.
We’ve already been all over central Italy and the Veneto, to Paris, Basel, Zurich, Vals, Chur, Barcelona, Andalusia, Copenhagen, Lisbon, and London. What are some good destinations to explore different culture, architecture, or nature than we have experienced before?
I unlocked the pump room using an experiment that gave me 3 electric eel aquariums every time I drafted a red room. Now I tried to drain the aquarium completely (and succeeded based on the light indicators in the pump room). However, one random aquarium that I drafted second or third is half empty now, even when I fully refill it. What’s causing this?