Warnemünde
Take a dip on a naked FKK (Frei Körper Kultur) beach on Germany's breezy Baltic coast. Nippy around the vitals but refreshing

Berlin
Enjoy the view from the top of the Reichstag, Germany's federal parliament building, then stroll around the new Holocaust Memorial and the leafy Tiergarten. If this is a bit tame, go cockroach racing instead

Hamburg
Take a boat down the Elbe alongside the vast port. Afterwards have a drink in one of the bars on Hafenstrasse, the city's colourful alternative quarter where squatters and the police used to battle it out in the 1980s

Wuppertal
Go for a ride on the world's only suspension railway. You can have coffee and cake in the railway's naff but historic Kaiserwagen

Wernigerode
Go hiking in the Harz mountains. If you are feeling lazy you can catch a steam train. And it's a lot cheaper to ski here than the Alps

Lübbenau
Go canoeing through the relaxing tree-lined canals of east Germany's Spreewald. Afterwards eat a gherkin, the local pickled delicacy

Frankfurt
Hire a Porsche or top-of-the-range Mercedes and drive like an idiot at 150mph on Germany's speed-unlimited autobahn. Popular with Chinese tourists

Weimar
Pay your respects to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and his mate Friedrich Schiller, who lie side by side in Weimar's princely crypt

Munich
Have a beer and a Weisswurst (white sausage) in one of Munich's numerous beer gardens

Baden-Baden
Go for a stroll in the Black Forest using Nordic walking sticks. Alternatively enrol in one of the forest's dirty dancing weekends, where you perform on a stump