And did they ever spoil us! First we went down to Hamburg. From there we headed further south to cities I used to dream of visiting as I poured over a map of the world: Dresden, Cologne, Bonn, Berlin… Then there was that enchanted trip down the River Rhine to Munich and the tour of the amazing province of Bavaria. Oh, and the museums! From the time we toured Beethoven’s house-turned-museum, I had his music stuck in my head, so that was the soundtrack for the rest of the trip. And as if they weren’t spoiling us enough with everything else, they wined and dined us wherever we went. I’d never tasted alcohol before, and I didn’t have any on this trip either. Even when they took us to the oldest pub in Munich, I ordered something non-alcoholic. But they served the other delegates beer with the
