Europe on a shoestring - Germany (Chapter)

This is the Germany chapter from Lonely Planet's Europe on a Shoestring guidebook.

Beer or wine? Berlin or Munich? Castle or club? East or west? The answers are simple: both. Why decide? The beauty of Germany is that rather than choosing, you can revel in the contrasts.

• party day and night in Berlin; save sleep for somewhere else as there's no time here with the clubs, museums, bars and ever-changing zeitgeist
• maps
• time your journey for Oktoberfest, Munich's orgy of suds, or just hang out in a beer garden
• transport
• go cuckoo in the Black Forest, discovering its chilly crags, misty peaks and endless trails
• restaurants & accommodation

Coverage includes: Berlin, Around Berlin, Potsdam, Eastern Germany, Dresden, Around Dresden, Meissen, Leipzig, Erfurt, Weimar, Eisenach, Around Weimar, Buchenwald, Bavaria, Munich, Würzburg, Romantic Road, Bamberg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Nuremberg, Regensburg, Füssen, Bavarian Alps, Berchtesgaden, Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Around Stuttgart, Tübingen, Heidelberg, Black Forest, Baden-Baden, Black Forest, Feldberg, Freiburg, Lake Constance, Western Germany,  Moselle Valley, Trier, Rhine Valley – Koblenz to Mainz, Frankfurt-am-Main, Cologne, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Aachen, Lower Saxony, Hanover, Hamelin, Around Hanover, Bremen, Lüneburg, Northern Germany, Hamburg, Lübeck, Understand Germany, History, Arts, Sports, Food & Drink, Survival Guide, Directory, Getting There & Away, and Getting Around.