Man, a two-week fall break is pretty sweet! It gave me lots of time to stay up until the wee hours of the morning and sleep in until noon if I wanted to. That's quite a change from having to get up at 5:45. I was fortunate in a way to have my university class cancelled for the same two weeks, so I had absolutely no obligations to worry about during the break.
My original plan was to spend the entire two weeks just traveling around Germany, spending a day or two in a city before moving on. That means spending a lot of money and planning well in advance where I wanted to go, neither of which I was prepared to do. So instead, I chose two cities in an area of Germany I had never been to and spend 5 days checking them out.
First stop: Lübeck, about 5 hours north of Cologne in the state of Schleswig-Holstein.
