Afterword. A trip of this magnitude cannot happen without changing the traveler. We have both learned a lot from this, and had a lot of what we know verified at times, and challenged at others ( Read more... )

Day 57. We had a lovely night's sleep in the AirBNB site we had booked. It all worked out very well, and we were ready to go a few minutes before the taxi arrived, early. He was able to easily fit all our stuff in, and took us to the Munich airport in quick time ( Read more... )

Day 56. This is the end of our eight week on the road. Tomorrow we go home ( Read more... )

Day 55. Up and at breakfast early. Kathy got in from the all-nighter at 6:30 so I left her to sleep and got her a little bit to get her through once she woke up. Then I started hanging around the filk panels a little and doing some searching online a little ( Read more... )

Day 54. After breakfast today I headed into town. It was pretty early so I walked around the center of town a little. The tourist information center was closed but I discovered a big wall map with a street index so I used that to plan my day. I went off looking for the Hertz location, but found nothing there. Near there I did find a big ( Read more... )

Day 53. Today's goal was to get to the convention, and we decided that the most expedient way was to go with Sybille, Gudrun, and her husband. They were going to take the one train that would go directly without changing trains, and that one left Berlin Alexanderplatz at 7:13. So we got up at the 5:30 that usually involves profanity ( Read more... )

Day 52. I got up and wandered down to a nearby store and got us some pastries with creme and cranberry jelly filling, and coffee. They were delicious. Then I came back and packed the box to ship home ( Read more... )

Day 51. We got up this morning and made it to the breakfast buffet. Then packed. It was still plenty early so I walked off to see the Beatlesplatz, which was only about 4 blocks from our hotel, but in a different direction than I'd walked before ( Read more... )

Day 50. We got up this morning for a quite excellent breakfast buffet. Then I grabbed a city bus and headed to the Speicherstadt area to visit Miniatur Wunderland. The bus driver was kind enough to point out my stop to me so I didn't get lost ( Read more... )

Day 49. Today I got up pretty early so that I could visit a couple of stores. I walked up into town and went to a couple of toy stores, buying some more Sikus and an Austin by Welly Nex. Not bad for a fairly short shopping day ( Read more... )