Cass and I arrived home at about 9:50 pm tonight. That's roughly about 24 hrs after we first woke up to get to the airport in Berlin, including about a 6 hour layover at London Gatwick.
Tomorrow, I'll post a wrap-up and sort through the pictures to see if there are any more interesting ones that I missed.
We're exhausted, but it was a great trip!
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Friday, December 14, 2007
Thursday, December 13, 2007
More photos
Jenny and I did some sightseeing today, so the photos are a bit more interesting.
Jenny at the Brandenburg Gate
The Reichstag (German Parliament)
Closeup of the front of the Reichstag building
Stones in the street indicating where the Berlin wall stood
Holocaust memorial
Section of the wall that's still standing (on Schutzenstrasse, I think?)
The World Clock in Alexanderplatz
The World Clock again
Checkpoint CharlieWednesday, December 12, 2007
Berlin
Daniel, Simon, Martin, Cyril, Yury, Martin-Karl, Jacopo, Cindy, Jenny
Going to some demolished mall/bar place in east Berlin
Cass at dinner
Simon, Martin, Cyril, Yury, Martin-Karl
Outisde the demoished mall/bar in east Berlin
Inside the demolished mall/bar in east Berlin
Bratwurst, sauerkraut, and boiled potatoes (yes, I ate some!)Monday, December 10, 2007
Pictures
"Visiting" in the hotel lobby (aka reading the Blackberry)
Out to eat last night (Cass, Yury, Miguel)
Guess which beer is Cass'sFrankfurt = hotel lobby
Currently, I am sitting in the hotel lobby using their free wireless. Cass, Yury, and Miguel have gone for their meeting, and I am all alone. Even though I took 2 years of German at MSU, I have found it quite useless - which I always knew. I hated that class, and I did the bare minimum to get by with a decent grade. I'm sure Tracy retained much more of it than I did. :) (I remember you trying to speak it, like outside of class, and me thinking you were crazy! lol!)
Anyway, we went out last night to an "authentic German" restaurant. That's what the lady at the hotel said anyway. It was called Apostel, and we had pfeffersteak there. Well, Cass had stroganoff, and the rest of us had pfeffersteak. It was all good. They had their own beer, of course - Cass had the light version, and Miguel and Yury had the Christmas beer.
I have one picture from dinner last night, but I am awaiting a text from Cass to tell me where his GPS is. I forgot the card reader for the camera memory card, so we're having to use the GPS to get the pictures off the memory card and onto the laptop, so I can post them. Cass's texts aren't getting through very well, so I'm probably going to have to email him to get an answer.
Anyway, here I sit. I'm supposed to catch the bus/tram thingy in a few hours to go meet them before they go to dinner. That should be interesting. The ticket machine is in German. Miguel told me what to do - let's just hope I remember. They are only about 6 stops down on the same line, so it should be easy enough. ~crossing fingers~
Tomorrow, we're headed to Berlin, where we'll be for several days. My cousin Jenny, who is doing an internship in Switzerland this year, is going to fly up to Berlin. I'll be glad to have some company while Cass is busy with work stuff.
Anyway, we went out last night to an "authentic German" restaurant. That's what the lady at the hotel said anyway. It was called Apostel, and we had pfeffersteak there. Well, Cass had stroganoff, and the rest of us had pfeffersteak. It was all good. They had their own beer, of course - Cass had the light version, and Miguel and Yury had the Christmas beer.
I have one picture from dinner last night, but I am awaiting a text from Cass to tell me where his GPS is. I forgot the card reader for the camera memory card, so we're having to use the GPS to get the pictures off the memory card and onto the laptop, so I can post them. Cass's texts aren't getting through very well, so I'm probably going to have to email him to get an answer.
Anyway, here I sit. I'm supposed to catch the bus/tram thingy in a few hours to go meet them before they go to dinner. That should be interesting. The ticket machine is in German. Miguel told me what to do - let's just hope I remember. They are only about 6 stops down on the same line, so it should be easy enough. ~crossing fingers~
Tomorrow, we're headed to Berlin, where we'll be for several days. My cousin Jenny, who is doing an internship in Switzerland this year, is going to fly up to Berlin. I'll be glad to have some company while Cass is busy with work stuff.
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Photos
We got to Frankfurt a few hours ago, and after a good nap I'm ready to post some photos.
Yesterday, we did some sightseeing with Yury, Louis, Miguel and his son Pau. Well, we actually intended to see some sights, but we got a late start. By the time we left the pub, it was nearly dark. We went to the Westminster Tube stop to see Big Ben, Parliament, the London Eye, etc. The guys wanted to go on the London Eye, so they got tickets. The lines were reasonable, so they got on while I sat on a bench and watched. It was really nice - not too cold out, but there was a guy dancing to Michael Jackson music beside my bench, and he was attracting the drunk crowd. A drunk guy kept hovering around me, and he finally asked if he could sit next to me. I told him no and he left.
After they got off the Eye, we met up with Simon to go get some dinner. We ended up at a restaurant under a bridge, just north of the Eye along the Thames. We could hear the trains going overhead all during dinner. The food was really good, and we drank 2 bottles of wine. The restaurant was hosting Christmas parties and giving hats to the partiers, so Cass insisted that he get a hat. The waitress gave in (since we were non-partiers), but she totally gave Cass a girl hat. Everybody had a turn wearing the princess hat.
We went to a pub after dinner and ended up going back to the hotel way too late. Cass and I had to get up early this morning to get to Heathrow for our flight to Frankfurt.
The guys on the London Eye (they're in the higher car)
Yet another pic of Simon and Cass for our collection
Louis, me, Yury
Cass and his princess hat
Odd sight outside the restaurant
Simon's turn in the princess hat
Yesterday, we did some sightseeing with Yury, Louis, Miguel and his son Pau. Well, we actually intended to see some sights, but we got a late start. By the time we left the pub, it was nearly dark. We went to the Westminster Tube stop to see Big Ben, Parliament, the London Eye, etc. The guys wanted to go on the London Eye, so they got tickets. The lines were reasonable, so they got on while I sat on a bench and watched. It was really nice - not too cold out, but there was a guy dancing to Michael Jackson music beside my bench, and he was attracting the drunk crowd. A drunk guy kept hovering around me, and he finally asked if he could sit next to me. I told him no and he left.
After they got off the Eye, we met up with Simon to go get some dinner. We ended up at a restaurant under a bridge, just north of the Eye along the Thames. We could hear the trains going overhead all during dinner. The food was really good, and we drank 2 bottles of wine. The restaurant was hosting Christmas parties and giving hats to the partiers, so Cass insisted that he get a hat. The waitress gave in (since we were non-partiers), but she totally gave Cass a girl hat. Everybody had a turn wearing the princess hat.
We went to a pub after dinner and ended up going back to the hotel way too late. Cass and I had to get up early this morning to get to Heathrow for our flight to Frankfurt.
The guys on the London Eye (they're in the higher car)
Yet another pic of Simon and Cass for our collection
Louis, me, Yury
Cass and his princess hat
Odd sight outside the restaurant
Simon's turn in the princess hat
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