Thailand can be a strange place for a tourist who has not been there before. Here are some of the things to expect in a visit to Thailand.

• Extremely bad dancing
• Even worse dress sense.
• Girls with features of guys... and girls that are actually guys... and sometimes better looking than the real ones.
• People driving scooters on the wrong side of the road.

Ulm, Germany, was interesting as it had the tallest climbable steeple in the world (161.53m high and 768 steps). I think it was 470+ feet of stairs. Just when you thought it couldn't go on, there were more steps to be found. I thought I was at the end at least a couple of times. By the time you do actually get to the top it is pretty freaky with about a 3 metre radius on the top platform.

Berlin was a city that many people I meet in my travels have high praises for. I ended up staying there for a week. About three days of this was spent travelling to Potsdam, which is about 20 kilometres outside of Berlin.

Berlin is currently in an interesting state of trying to merge a city that was divided between communism and democracy.
There seems to be plenty of development going on and the cities areas are in a state of flux.

This city has so much history and there are plenty of guides and attractions willing to tell you about how this city was at the centre of plunging many of t

Potsdam is full of parks and palaces. I really enjoyed walking around Potsdam and spent about 3 days doing so. I didn't enjoy the subsequent blisters so much though. Investigating bike hire would is definitely something to be considered here.

For English speaking travellers, you will find that a lot of the time you won't be understood. You will have more luck with the younger generation of Poles, but expect some difficulties communicating.