We get up for the final time before moving to the ship. Mom's excited about not having to move the suitcases around anymore. She's excited? I'm ecstatic! Karen has a hard time pushing hers around. It gets caught on cobblestones, curbs and train tracks. I tell her to push it at the bottom with her foot but she struggles. I'm glad to see them go. We get our free hotel breakfast, pack our things and check out of the hotel. The reception calls a taxi ...

The most important thing in the morning is getting our free breakfast and after that, we roll our luggage across the street to the main train station for our journey to Rotterdam. Unfortunately, it will take three different trains to get us all the way to our final destination. Our first leg takes us from Hamburg to Osnabruck, about two hours. We find a good spot for our luggage and locate our assigned seats. Unfortunately, they're occupied. I ask the two y...