Freiburg, Munich, Baden Baden

Freiburg, Munich

Freiburg is a nice small university town in Southern Germany. Its not a normal tourist stop but if you do end up there here are some things to do:

• The Munster platz (church square) has great sausages and there is a pretty farmers market there some days of the week that has lots of good edibles and produce. You can also climb to the top of the church spire
• There is a REALLY nice beer garden above the town with great beer, great food and a great view of the church

Munich, Germany

• Obviously much more on the tourist path, Munich is probably my favorite city in Germany. I went to Oktoberfest when I was studying abroad in Prague and then went back a few more times afterwards.
• The main attractions in my opinion are: beautiful churches, tasty beer and beautiful gardens.
• You can climb the spire in some of the churches which is worth the money and the stair climb at least once to get an ariel view of the city.
• Don't just go to the Hofbrau house in downtown munich, make sure you go to some of the beer gardens farther outside the center (we found an amazing one on a river bank), or the ones in English Gardens is very nice too, right on the central lake.
• Munich is a very "arty" city, so if you have time check out some of the museums or galleries.
• Two day trips that you can take, one to the black forest to go to Castle Norswanstien, and the other to the nazi prison camp Dachau are both very good. I'm more of a castle person and had already suffered through Aushwitz so I did not go to Dachau but my other friends that did said it was depressing but worth it.
• Another interesting historical place to visit in Munich is the building that Hitler gave his first official speech from

Baden Baden, Germany

I only went to Baden Baden for the day, but its a cute spa town. Probably more for the luxury vacation set, but there were some really nice parks and old roman baths