Thursday 29 October It's annoying to be again consistently not sleeping well. The room lights are on a timer. It about 8:30 when they come on. The room has been pretty noisy overall. No sound absorbing flooring. We pack, eat breakfast and I FaceTime with family while Malcolm does some things on the computer. It's after 11 by the time we head out and we decide to check out the concentration camp. Once we figure out how to get there it's pretty straight forward. T...

Wednesday 28 October We pack up and have breakfast at the hostel. Then we walk to the bus stop to catch our bus Munich. The wall along the path had just been rendered and we gauged it with our bags. Opps. No signs or anything. We meet a girl from Australia also traveling and living on the uk for a year. The bus ride is about 2 hours and the countryside is so lovely. We have to stop at a checkpoint and have out passports looked at. I guess screening for refugees...

Wednesday 21 October We get up and have breakfast and I FaceTime with dad and my grandparents. It's Malcolm's 30th and I give him a little music box that plays happy birthday. Then we head to the tower to catch a tour bus. But it turns out there are a few, so we pick one that suits us. The first route we do is a little long and boring, but a few important things-like the old Berlin Wall memorial. The second route after lunch is more interesting and we see the ga...

Tuesday 20 October It's an early start. First the walk to the train station. Getting tickets and making the last mad dash to get on the train. Only one stop and we make our way up to the bus stops. Our bus is waiting and we are early. At 8 am we leave. It's not too far to the border and then we are in Germany. We have a 30min stop around lunch time and arrive in Berlin about 3:45. The day passed very quickly! It didn't feel that long! We figure out the train tic...