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Originally Posted by notcasesensitive
Thanks! This is super helpful.
There are a couple of reasons that we decided to do a car trip instead of trains. One was cost and another was that I'm going to have a suitcase to lug around and old European cities aren't ideal for that kind of travel (alas my back prevents me from being a backpacker at this stage in my life). We will stay in Berlin proper for at least a couple of days before we pick up the car and we may stay in the city center of a couple of these cities, but touring around and exploring the countryside is also a benefit of the car option, so we will be stopping in smaller towns for lunch and things like that. The list we have is pretty ambitious and maybe we save the southern France stuff for another trip.
Great suggestions in Czechoslovakia and Austria!
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That's generally why we wind up driving too. It's just so much more flexible, and we never manage to pare down the itinerary enough.
I've been to Berlin twice so I feel like I should have specific things to recommend but I'm not sure I do (your German probably has that covered anyway). My main Berlin observation is how much it changed between the first trip, in maybe 1996, and 2011 when we were there last. The first time, all of the action was on the Ku'daam in what had been the West side and when you did go over to the old East, it was super quiet and dead. The second time, we didn't even go over to the Ku'daam.
I guess a specific (although unoriginal) recommendation would be to go see the Pergamon Alter, which is pretty cool.
The second time we stayed
here, which is a pretty good location and pretty cheap.
