There are Asian touches throughout the 73-room hotel (including a volume of Buddhist teachings in the bedside table along with the usual Gideon bible), but the general impression is of international luxury in a comfortable space.

As the Michelin guide says of three-star restaurants, Munich's opera and food were both "Worth the journey."

Germany's most famous Christmas Market is often referred to as the "Little Town from Wood and Clot," due to the 180 wooden market stalls decorated with red and white fabrics in the picturesque old town.

Whether it's intricate carving on an ancient temple or steel bended in ways you never thought possible, the complexities of architecture never cease to amaze.

Oktoberfest has been carrying on for about a month now, but beer, bratwurst and polka bands aren't out of style just yet.

Our group meandered into the next room to hear about brutal capos who oversaw the prisoners, about twelve starving men sleeping in plank-board bunks built for three, about floggings and pole hangings.

Oktoberfest has gotten huge. With six million drinkers expected to descend on Munich's 64 acres of tents and consume roughly seven million liters of b...

Let's lift our steins to poor Ludwig, the original fairy tale king.

It is worth noting that though every country has its own leader, there was only one "King of Pop."

A majority of the people I saw on the street were wealthy, conservative-Muslim Arab families dressed men, happy children and women covered in black burkas.

Germanic people even seem efficient about hedonism. Every country seems to have its own firewater. While I gingerly sip it, locals throw it down in a gulp.

It is the perfect summer to head to Europe.

Munich pedestrianized its main street for the 1972 Olympics, starting a trend in Europe.

I am in one of the most exciting cities in the world and where am I in this scheme of things? Stuck in my hotel room.