As my first official day of travel, I really wanted to dedicate this day to strictly getting to know the City of Berlin. Basically visit Museums, Historical areas, and whatever else made Berlin the place it is today. After I finished getting familiar with the map of Berlin, I headed out to my destinations. First, I was driven to Jüdisches Museum...

Spent two nights in Berlin... arrived on saturday in the afternoon and spent most of that aft~ernoon walking around Alexander platz trying to find somewhere with the Internet and a USB connection on the computer... finally found somewhere but after half an hour and only one photo loaded we gave up so unfortunately folks the photos will have to w...

It is hard to believe it is the end of July and almost two months of our adventure are behind us.  I often wonder what the readjustment period to life back in Massachusetts will be like.  We are so lucky to be having this experience.  In my wildest dreams, well maybe not the wildest, I couldn't have hoped for more.  The kids ...

STOP PRESS....ITS BEEN CHANGED...APOLOGIES IF IT DOESNT QUITE WORK IN PLACES..... We lurched from one potential disaster to the next.  Having barely survived the flash flooding in Noordwijk (there may be some slight exaggeration there) I left the hostel to check emails, etc with everything in order at our Berlin hostel.  Upon my return...

Well the time has come to say goodbye to the place that I now refer to as home. I plan to come back straight away - lets get that straight first! I never really explained my apartment while I was there in Berlin because there always seemed to be more interesting things to talk about, but it was quite an experience - it was almost like returning ...

Second day here, keyboard is strange. :=) Started snowing a couple of hours after we got to our hostle. The hostle is very very nice, everything seems to be new and clean. Good first choice. Picked up our six hour long bus ride tickets to Prauge today, heading there in two days. Going to see the wall soon, and other landmarks in the area, found ...