Have had a lovely couple of days catching up with friends. Sunday morning we picked up a hire car which I thought was going to be something like my I30 but was a Puegot SUV (or something like that anyway). Nice to drive. Had a GPS to get me to Kidderminster and had no problems even though it was foggy the whole way. I never real trust those things but this one did good. I had no idea what the speed limit was because there was not one sign on the motorway so stuck...

Well we ended up having a bit of a lazy morning which wasn't intentional but that's just how it worked out. I think we are both getting more tired by the day. We have crammed a lot in over the past 5 weeks. Did some skyping in the morning and then a last breakfast at the hotel. They have the best fresh home made muesli and I'm not usually muesli person. We checked out about noon, left our bags and headed back to the Palace of Tears Museum that we visited yesterda...

Not sure where to start for today. Well, we did do some laundry at the self service laundry across the road and hung it in our room. It is so warm in here, that it was all dry by the time we returned after our 6hr walking tour and dinner. It was a bit drizzly this morning but it stopped just as we left the hotel which was nice. It would have been rather mild today except for a very cold breeze blowing. Anyway, I digress. There were 10 of us on the tour, so a go...

Well we rugged up and headed out to join the crowd for NYE and made our way to the entry point to join the street party at Brandenburger Gate. We were surprised by the check they did for alcohol and glass. A cursory glance through bags, males were patted down, females were waved through. Could have smuggled anything in. Mum agreed to go on the ferris wheel with me but started to have second thoughts when she saw they spun. I told her they only spun if you made th...

We arrived in Berlin around 11am to find it snowing. Well you can imagine how happy that made us. Better late than never. Caught a bus to our hotel. We were going to leave our bags as we were told our room wasn't ready, but as we sat down to figure out where to head to, a room became available which was handy. We paid a little extra here for some more space and have a lovely room, overlooking the courtyard, although we've never known a heater to put out so much h...