Another old write up to get the Germany section on my world map coloured in. It was along time ago back in 1991. I had backpacked through Asia and a bit of Africa solo before jumping on an 18 to 35s Contiki tour for a 6 weeks tour of Europe. The bus tour was very different from backpacking by myself, great to have somebody else doing all the organising though it was a lot more restrictive from what I was used to making plans up as I went. The tour only visited Munich and the Rhine Valley over a couple of days near the end. But before the Bus crossed the channel back to England from the Netherlands, I jumped off and made my way back to Berlin.
I used Berlin for a bit of a base and did a bit of a Scandinavian loop of Denmark, Sweden, Norway before back to Berlin on the train. I had a friend in Switzerland so I did a bit of skiing before back again and then got on a small group Russian tour from Berlin again. At the time it was the only way to get into Russia. It was a bit funny as I was the only non German person on this small group tour to Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Any way I like Berlin and knew my way from the train to the youth hostel pretty well.