We have decided it is all too hard to write a blog this time so apologies to those of you who are not on Facebook where I am writing brief updates and posting some photos!

I am writing this on Wednesday morning on the train from Berlin to Hilversum. Tuesday morning started a little rainy, Miriam still coughing a lot but determined to get out and see more of Berlin. We had researched best coffees in Berlin and picked Oliv in the Mitte area. We found it with no issues and ordered our capuccino and plum cake. The plum cake was great but the coffee disappointing. We headed then to the DDR museum. This museum showed us what life w...

I am starting this on Sunday afternoon and we are all taking it easy, Miriam particularly. This morning it was clear that we needed outside medical help for her. A very nice young doctor came to the apartment and prescribed antibiotics, an inhaler and paracetamol. Hopefully these will start to have an impact in the morning. On Saturday in the early evening we had our pre-booked visit to the Reichstadt, the German parliament building. This building was hardly u...

Your normal correspondent has gone AWOL, you will have to put up with the back-up. Miriam has been struggling with a viral infection for a few days now which has restricted her normal enthusiastic travel manner. I think it started on the long flight from Sydney via Hong Kong and Frankfurt. We arrived in Berlin on a warm sunny Thursday afternoon by train from Frankfurt airport. Then we had 3 hours to fill before we could get into the apartment. We walked with ...