Ha...I can be quite ambitious with what I want to do when I am travelling. It is even worse because I know more than likely once I get my piece of paper that says im an Engineer in May 2010, I plan on roaming around Europe for a month, so there is always pelnty of time for me to go the places I do not visit on this trip. It is this reason that I think I will be saving Cologne for then. Id much rather visit Cologne with Aachen, Dusseldorf, Bonn, and then work my way down the Rhine toward Mainz. Summer seems to be the better season for this anyways...at least from some of the pictures I've seen on the net. I think I will save Freiburg for this purpose too, since I want to spend a day hiking in the black forest and again it seems summer time is better for this.

I think I am starting to really feel the vibes for Munich. I just really wish that the CityNightLine train operated on the dates I needed...it would be much nicer to wrap transport and sleep into one cost. That said its only a 1 hour longer ride on the ICE from Paris as compared to Freiburg. Plus it has helped out I have found some relatively cheap hotels in the center of Munich.

Along with Munich I am thinking about taking one of the mornings down to Zugspitze if I feel that I have time. Just looked at timetables and it appears that it only takes around 1.5 hours to get to Garmisch-Partenkirche and which doesnt seem to be too bad of a ride (2 hours away would probably have me questioning whether or not to go). Even with that in there I should be able to hit most of the bigger things I want to see and do in Munich.

I'm going to sit on this a little bit more before I purchase tickets. Not too long, probably later tonight I will make my final decision, so any more input you can throw at me before then it would be appreciated.