In Berlin

Where in the world am I? Well, I'm in Berlin. We arrived this morning after taking another night train. It was different this time though for two reasons. Firstly, there was some mix up that ended up with us being upgraded to two bed cabins (rather than the six bed ones we had paid for). Secondly, the train went on a ferry. I'd never seen anything like it. To cross over to Germany, the train drove onto a BC Ferry type ship.

We arrived here at 6AM this morning. We slept on the couch at the hostel for a while then went on another one of the free walking tours. Berlin seems like an amazing city. The fall of the wall is the first major news event I can remember happening, so to see the remains of it was quite significant for me. We are staying in quite a new hostel in Mitte (an area of Berlin) which is very convenient. We are booked here for four nights in theory, but there seems to be some confusion about that. We'll see what ends up happening.

Germany is playing Turkey tonight so there are big screens set up and they are expecting massive crowds. We'll probably go watch that and soak in some atmosphere. Stay tuned...