I decided that, for my last day before leaving, that I would go see the bombed out church from WWII. So I got down there and was just walking around and looking it over when there was a bright white flash and suddenly I was still in the church but it was 1945, right in the middle of an Allied air raid. I could hear the bombs exploding in the sur...

Hello every one I am so excited because my plane is about to leave Chicago on its way to Berlin! I will arrive tomorrow March 15, at 12:05 pm. I will be staying at the Adlon Kempinski hotel located directly in front of the historically significant Brandenburg Gate. The weather in Berlin is very similar to the weather we are having in Chicago at ...

First things first, my ATM card is missing.  We are not worried about it being stollen but think I dropped it from my inner coat pocket at some point taking the camera out.  The last time I used it was at an ATM in Prague at a mall the morning of the 3rd.  I had used it the day before upon our arrival at the Prague train station, ...

Nate and I also stopped in Germany for a few days, in between Belgium and Denmark.  We went to Berlin and Hamburg.  Berlin is pretty cool, but there is not much to do in Hamburg.  It is pleasant along the harbor, and we saw some fake Mississippi river boats, so that was funny.  Germany has lots of beer and sausages, so we wer...

motdomme, wat was dat vroeg vanmorgen. Om 5.45 ging de wekker, want er moesten nog 3 man douchen voordat de wandeltocht naar het station aangevangen kon worden. helaas maakte Bert er bijna een potje van, door zich nog eens om te draaien ipv onder de douche te stappen. Door hem wat op te jagen waren we echter nog ruim op tijd om naar het station ...

I slept in this morning, packed a small bag for our four day stay in Berlin, and ate breakfast before heading to the computer lab to check my emails. Our train left around 11:30, and we arrived in Uelzen around 12:00, where we switched to another train that took us directly to Berlin. The train ride was not too pleasant as you had to choose betw...

After waiting in the freezing cold at the trainstation at 5 in the morning in sleepy cesky krumlov with no staff and only the timetables written in czech to guide us the train finally came. 3 hours or so later we were back in Prague. Spent most of the train ride talking to a young melbourne kid on his way to Krakow from Sweden. It was kinda funn...

What a marvellous city. Great of course to go and see some good friends too living in what can only be described as a vast and rather eccentric shared loft apartment. To stand at the Brandenburg gate and admire the city layout, architecture and to simultaneously look at the pictures of what was done to the city by the Wall as recently as 1990 wa...