The five-day excursion was very interesting and enlightening. sometimes. some tours were good, others not so much. bus rides were not fun. the best part for me was exploring the cities on my own, which was difficult to do when we were given very limited free time. actually the only city i got to semi-explore was Dresden. i thought it was cool how each city got progressively bigger. Weimar was a cute little town, Dresden was a decent sized busy city and Berlin was huge. i was very surprised by the appearance of Berlin. i had never heard before that it was nicknamed the dirty city. it was quite dirty. it actually looked like they were still cleaning up from the war. construction and graffiti and garbage and ramshackle houses everywhere. such a city full of history though. my basic impression of germany is graffiti, bicycles, trains, no toilet paper, no free anything, and more graffiti.