Many place that are a must to visit in Berlin..one of which is the famous Bradenburger Tor..at its place you can see the history of it and how it links up with the original Berlin wall..it's especially nice if you take a photo at night..
Another place we visited and enjoyed thoroughly was the Jewish Museum..due to the extensive history of Germany tied with WW2..and especially the history of Berlin..it cannot be more appropriate for Berlin to have this museum..in this many storey building..it actually display pictures and historical documents on the Holocaust..the lifes of the Jews..and the many events associated with the Jews..especially in the period of the WW2..i never knew one could stay so long in a museum..but after this place..i really developed an interest for such places..
In Berlin, there're also many interesting architecture..The Memorial Church which was partly destroyed but amidst the modern architecture it's almost impossible to miss..
thank goodness the inside frescos were intact..and really amazing..
The Victory Monument is so significant that even on the SBahn you absolutely cannot miss it..With the figurine of a victory lady at the top..this golden tower is a landmark of the area..a climb up cost ~1 euro( i cannot really remember but i suppose such a physically straining climb could not have caused me to pay anything more than 2)and it brings you all the way to just below the figure..Safety bars surround the place so it's still pretty safe although it gives your legs jelly if you're afraid of heights and when the wind is so strong you feel like you'll be blown off any minute..worth having a look though..
When one is in Berlin..it almost makes no sense if you do not visit Potsdam..it appears that Potsdam to Berlin in its history is like Versailles is to Paris..it is where the Palaces are found..and wow..just by visiting one place you get to see many palaces all situated near each others..if you really want to explore the place well better spend at least a day here..Sanssouci, New Palace and Charlottenhof..but we only managed to tour only one of them..we were there pretty late..the new palace..which has this room made of shells..yeah you got me right..shells~~~ extremely amazing..if you've been to Versailles..this may not seem so much as grand as the one there..but still a good place with extrememly huge parks..and well..just walking through it can take you a few hours..
Berlin has been a great place to visit..but till today it appears that the difference between east and west berlin is still visible..the eastern side appears to be more undeveloped while the west boasts of modern architecture..it was great having so many days to relax and see all there is to see..at the end of the day..Berlin is afterall the capital of Germany..
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(FINALLY)..since strictly speaking it was the first place I arrived in Germany..(Emirates fly to Dusseldorf), it gave me a real comfortable feeling..very at ease with the whole place..no longer feeling awkward nor uncertain..Dusseldorf is very much a "more city" city..
probably because it is the city in the region with a major airport..and a shopping haven for luxury goods..it is the first place I see in Germany with designer brand boutiques..if you're into sight seeing..I won't say Dusseldorf has much to offer..but parks in this urban landscape blend right in with the environment..and makes these places seem even more precious than they really are...
a very nice city with lots of shops and a wonderful bookshop with a sufficiently large collection of English books..the most i have seen thus far..bought a book and visited Villa Hugel 
but after that was too tired to do anything else..so came back and decided to visit Essen again some other time..
and Rothenburg today..went to the Residenz at Wurzburg first..it was great!! very nice frescos in the interior..
Rothenburg on the other hand has a nice little village feel altho i must say it was really overpacked with tourists.. a bit too many for my liking..
but i still like the fact that it felt like a fairytale little town..by now..you'll realise my entries are getting shorter and shorter..haha..actually everywhere has it owns distinct feel but due to a lack of vocab..i keep saying the same thing..what i want to say is go visit it urself...you'll really love it...
and the spirit of the Oktoberfest was juz everywhere..
we then walked a bit around the munich city centre...
just an advice if you want to go Oktoberfest..
go with someone who drinks.. 
and the Neuschwanstein castle 
cos we booked the tickets already..it is advisable to do that online first altho it comes with a small fee...the queue is scary even early in the mornin..IT WAS JUST SUPERB!! nothing to say bout it except superb!!! it literally looks like someone pasted it from a fairy tale book...It was built by King Ludwig II..who somewhat loved to live in his own fantasy..and thus built such splendid castles..if u find Neuschwanstein somewhat familiar..that's cos Disney used it as an inspiration for the castle we see in the animation Sleeping Beauty..it is like situated on this hill by itself..
really amazing..considering the technology at that time..and the scale of it all..with the magnificence..spent a whole day there..before making our way back..
and the view from the castle...my..u really can feel the "greenness" in u well up as u think bout the people who used to stay here...
because we had time to spare for the day and could not go to Augsburg to check in anyway. 
There was this really beautiful fountain called Ehekarussell Brunnen, in which the artist depicted 6 different interpretations of marriage...extreme coolness!! Nuremburg was great with lots to see and great nice buildings..
and they have cool names too..like this fountain where the literal translation is Beautiful Fountain..it has a legend that turning the ring 3 times will make ur wish come true..
after Nuremburg we made our way to Augsburg where we will stay for 4 nitez..
i think with at least over 50 stores...very cool..and there were lots to see..i spent like more than an hr just looking at the things and also the sights there..
then it was off to the car museums 
and it was on the way i made a fren..
This weekend ventured by myself to Ludwigsburg and stayed over for a night in Stuttgart. The Venetian Fair at Ludwigsburg was lovely!!! 
There were many people in these real colourful dressing and these lovely masks..there were also live music performances..skits..and dances...
and even this outdoor musical thing where there are no lines so there's no problem of understanding it and all the performers are on blades!! it was a very amusing act and everyone totally enjoyed it.. 
it was really big..or shld i say long..nothing you would ever have seen in Singapore but very interesting to see all the things people sell there..altho i din get anything for myself..but it was a real interesting experience.. we then made our way to the leibniz house..which was just nearby..there's this brassring which supposedly when u turn it 3 times n make a wish ur wish will come true..BUT i cun find it!!! 0) haha..then we made our way to the rathaus..
which was a real nice N big building..
there're four models inside to depict the situation of hannover at diff periods of time..one in 1939 b4 WWII one after WWII, one in the 60s and one now...we could then take an elevator to the top of the rathaus..what is so special bout this elevator is it's slanted.yes u nv hear wrong..slanted..u can like feel urself leaning against one side when u're in the elevator n u can see the curves of its path thru the look-thru panels at the top of the elevator..COOL... nxt we then made our way to the Hbf..where we had to take a U-Bahn to the Herrenhauser Garden..
I LOVE THIS PLACE..it's so big..i feel it can almost be as big as a town in Singapore..
and it's just a garden..very nicely maintained and with many flowers n plants..
it just makes u feel at ease...by the time we finished with the gardens..
we had to rush for a train to Hameln..Hamelin was made famous through the Pied Piper legend by the brothers Grimm..and the first thing u c in this town are rats..
ahaha..not real ones..just statues..and prints on the floor..a very cute town..with half-timbered houses..and a wonderful feel to it.. 
i loved this Dom..more than the one in Koln..it has this serene feeling when u enter..and the carvings are so intricate and marvellous..inside there's also this organ that hangs from the ceiling..
as we exited the Dom we had to pass this alley called windstrasse..and boy does the name fit..the wind there is so strong u can hardly keep ur eyes open!!right next to the Dom is the Liebfrauenkirche..
this church is supported by exactly 12 round pillars signifying the 12 apostles..we then made our way to Romische Palastaula..it used to be the throne room of Roman emperor Constantin...it stands at 36 m and is 67 m long..what is most amazing bout it is there are no pillars inside at all supporting the building!!! a pity no pictures were allowed...nxt to this is the prince electors' residence..which makes a lovely picture with the palace garden juz in front of it.. 
i wanna live here!! hahha..impossible..but really it's real great if one day i can haf a house with such a nice garden in front.. dream on!! nxt stop..amphitheatre..once capable of holding 20000 people..but we hafta pay to get in oso..so i juz got a postcard..ahah..next..Kaiserthermen..an early thermal bath..this 4th century ruins rise 19m tall..we then decided to go to Barbarathermen..urm..it was closed when we went..and yah..nothing much to now excpet holes on the floor.. 0) so we juz made our way to Moselle river..and the Romerbrucke..successor to a 2nd century bridge of which 5 of 7 pylons are still exant..wow..but it was very cold today..n when the wind blew..wow...brrrrrrr....cold...hahaha.. after the moselle..we made our way back to the city to look for the toy museum..
and inside it's a kid's paradise..from dolls to teddies to cars n trains..n planes..ahahha..it is located above this cafe..and has this cute car outside as a landmark..n then we headed for the train station for our next stop cochem.. cochem has this like nice little village feel to it..
the landmark being the Reichsburg..it rained when we went..but thankfully it stopped on our way down from Reichsburg..the view's great..and it was well worth the climb..we stayed there for a while..n then went back to the station..the stay in cochem was bout 2hrs..but it was memorable..ahah.. then it was back home..
went to bonn today..beethoven's hometown..
a very homely town with lots of boutiques...love it there..
feel very comfortable..very nice feeling to be just around there... 
cos it was lunch time..we had lunch by the river..O my...nice feeling to be slacking by the river having lunch..it feels so good u wun wanna leave...then we decided to proceed and to start looking at other sites..incidentally we found the deutsches eck..n it turned out to be a major site of Koblenz..it is acutally a promontory built on a sandback right at the river confluence(of Rhine & Moselle). 
In the place now is a statue of Kaiser Willhelm II. we then walked around the city area and decided to make our way to Boppard..Boppard is 20km south of Koblenz..by train takes bout only 10 minutes which is super good..ahaha..when we got there we din noe where the tourist information booth was so had to do without a map..but lonely planet mentioned this chairlift..
so we juz searched for it..and found it!! we took the ride up...it was a bit scary ar..for someone with vertigo.. but it was still manageable..after reaching we hafta walk a bit to Vierseenblick, a hill top site which gives very good view of the horse shoe shaped bend of the rhine river..supposedly the bendiest bend... 
after spending some tiem there of cos with some shots we descended the hill top...and made our way to the city area...in this town a lot of the roman remains are present in the streets n houses...
and they even have an archaelogical park that has the original Roman camp walls..together with graves of the Frankish era..after this 2 places..the clouds came..and we decided to make our way back..it was in all a wonderful trip...for a nature lover!!!
which is a cathedral n Mt Everest of all cathedrals..it was the highest building until Eiffel tower came to Europe.. =) we took a look at the interior and boy is it grand or what...all the pillars and stained glasses really make it look so beautiful...
how i wish i can get married there..waahha...there was a tower that we cud climb but we decided to come back in the afternoon...then it was to the chocolate museum...we took a walk along the Rhein river...n found it..it's loads of fun if u're a choc fanatic..n i m!!! we even get to taste choc from this choc fountain..
cool....there was a full account of the history of choc and collections of items from the past..next we were off to the cologne shop 4711..on the way we went to the rathaus..it was packed with people...n sales everywhere!!! we finally found it and well i bought a few bottles..ahaha...not forgetting the cologne fountain at the entrance of the shop...it was then we decided to make our way back to the Dom we climbed up the tower...and OMG issit tiring or issit tiring.. i almos dieded on the steps..ahaha..but at least it was worth it..what a view we then decided to walk around b4 heading back...cos we were juz too tired..ahaha..