Superlatives

Best hostel:
Sunflower Hostel in Berlin.

This hostel was nice and had good atmosphere. You did have to buy the breakfast for 3 Euro, but it was all you can eat with deli meats, cheese, three kinds of bread, three kinds of cereal, several interesting kinds of spreads, and several kinds of fruits. Also, there breakfast time was the longest of all hostels. The rooms were nice and clean. They were eco-conscious; staff was friendly and knowledgeable; it was quite quiet and had laundry on site.

Best breakfast:
Mazoviecki Hotel in Warsaw.

This was a "Sweedish Bar" which is similar to buffet. It has a bunch of cold items on a table which you can select from. Every day the items elaborate, different and delicious.

Most beautiful city:
Krakow, Poland.

This was by far the most beautiful city of all- even more than Paris, way more charming than Paris.

Most interesting attraction:
Wieliczka Salt Mines near Krakow.

This is a very large salt mine, which no longer mines for salt rock. It contains 200 chapels. We saw 2% of the salt mine and saw three chapels. There is this amazing chapel carves from the salt rock made by only three men, and is beautiful enough to get married in!

Most exciting show:
Blue Man Group in Berlin.

What can I say, they were absolutely AMAZING! It was just so well done with the acting and the drumming and the joking! Gawd, an ear to ear grin. I liked it even better than the Broadway Monty Python.

Most Bicycles:
Amsterdam

There was soooo many bikes that is was overwhelming. There wasn't enough space to rack all the bikes. In fact, there were entire bike parking lots!!! I also got hit by a bike :(

Strangest thing:
I think the strangest thing was seeing a man in Amsterdam riding a bicycle. He had a baby seat in the back with a baby in it (that's not the weird part). He had another baby which was sitting (nay! sleeping!) on the handle bars which he was holding up with one hand while steering with is other!!!!!!!!! The more unbelievable thing is that the area is so packed with ppl and bicycles, and one can only imagine that one is would be pushing luck to carry a baby on a handle bar with so many stops and starts.