Woke up at 5 am this morning to catch our 5:50 train from Munich to Salzburg. Grabbed a couple of croissants with hotdogs in them - kind of like Chinese hotdog bun, but European - at the train station before hopping on. After dozing for an hour, wolfed down the croissants and went back to dozing until we arrived in Salzburg at 8 am. We bussed from the train station over to Bob's Special Tours office in the city centre and settled in to wait for our mini-bus to ...

Early early start today b/c we were heading out to Germany. We had asked the hotel to give us a wake up call at 5:45 (it came at 5:30), and to call a taxi for us for 6:30. The cab was early, and b/c I wanted to get a receipt from the concierge, it had to wait for us for a bit. The concierge was super slow (I had pre-paid through booking.com already, but he was confused and wanted to charge me again - nuh-uh man) so when we finally got in the cab, the metrer alrea...

Arrived at our hotel in Munich, about a 10 minutes' walk from the Bahnhof (train station). Checked into Hotel Monaco, a thoroughly nice place with a lift - thank goodness since our room is on the 6th floor! Then after a brief rest, headed out to Marionplatz, the city's main square, in order to catch the Munich Walking Tour of the city. The square was by at, but not with shoppers (all the stores are closed on Sundays), but with locals, visitors, musicians, tours...

Started the day off at Montmartre, and since it was close to the hotel, we decided to walk it there. We did Rick Steve's quick tour in reverse, working clockwise from the Moulin Rouge (underwhelming, at least from outside - we didn't go in), up rue Lepic to see the outside of Van Gogh and Toulouse Lautrec's houses (also underwhelming), to La Terre, the main restaurant and artist's square, to Sacre Coeur Basilica. The view from the dome was amazing even with the 3...

Put a hold on our Paris sight-seeing to do some laundry in the laverie across the street. We stuffed our clothes in the mini-looking washing machine - at first I was skeptical that it would all fit, but the next one up was double the price! And I waited for the clothes to wash while Pete grabbed us some breakfast. In about an hour, we had some nice clean and dried clothes and were on our way to Paris' historic core. We got off at St. Michel metro stop and headed...