Blogging about Germany

Because people ask me a lot where they should go when they go to Germany (I'm apparently the local expert for many of my friends), I decided to write a blog series to answer the question. Unfortunately, my experience is confined to the southern third and Berlin, with brief excursions to Potsdam and Leipzig, so when I get to the northeastern third, I'll just be making things up or listing the major cities and saying "read the wikipedia entry." (I did visit Köln one day. All I remember is the Dom, and that's not hard to find at all. Exit train station. Look up. If you don't see it, turn around.)

I've always wanted to visit Dresden, but I've never managed to make it there, and there's not much that I know of in the eastern third. (Ossis, please correct me.) There's the cities I mentioned already, Cottbus, Chemnitz, the Baltic coast, and ... what else? Jena, I suppose, and the Erzgebirge (mountains are cool).

And if anyone has awesome things to say about NRW, Bremen, Hannover, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, or Niedersachsen, chime in! You can see what I've talked about already here.