SATURDAY 7th JULY 2012BERLINAhhhhh! A lovely sleep in! Didn't surface until eight thirty and then found a little cafe and had a beaut coffee and some waffles for brekky, sitting outside because already it was very humid and quite hot! According to the waitress the hot weather is most unusual as it normally only gets to about twenty five degrees here in summer, and everyone is sweltering!The concierge in the hotel had booked the hop-on hop-off bus tour for us ...

FRIDAY 6th JULY 2012BACK TO GERMANYCaught up with a few of the group at breakfast this morning and said farewells, then we ordered a large taxi to get us and our gear out to Heathrow! An old Vauxhall Zafira driven by an Indian bloke about seventy five years old turned up, and we had to help him get the cases into the back, before we set out off!!! As it turned out he was a bloody good driver and got us through the early morning traffic in no time, obeying all the...