We've had a very long day, but everything went on schedule and as planned. It is good to finally get to the hotel in Athens. It was nearly midnight by the time we got to the room. We left home about 9:30 a.m. CDT yesterday going from ABQ to IAH, spending three hours on a layover there, flying on to Munich for a ten-hour layover, then on to Athens. Our wonderful travel agent, Paula Kay, arranged for a car service to pick us up at the airport and take us to the Kin...

Our last day in Berlin, our last day of the trip. Tomorrow we will be homeward bound. We enjoyed our last time to sleep late and then spent most of the day on Museum Island visiting museums. Before going, we went shopping at the Ampelmann shop. The ampelmannchen are the graphics used on the streetlights for Walk and Don't Walk in what used to be East Berlin. After unification, they were removed. However, the people had such a strong response and preference for t...

Our day trip to Potsdam started with pickup at the hotel for a shuttle to the tour starting point. The shuttle was about ten minutes late arriving at our hotel. That was an exception to the normally on-time performance of every tour and reservation (not counting the late start from United Airlines in Albuquerque). The beginning of the bus trip was quiet, but we stopped to pick up our guide near the dividing line between Berlin and Potsdam. As soon as she climbe...