This has definitely been a different week for me. You are now reading the writing of a graduate of course A1 of the GLS School (Schule) in Berlin. How was it? I'm glad you asked. I turned up on Monday morning (Montag morgen) and took a placement test to determine my current knowledge of the German language. What a humiliating experience that was - I opened the sheet and recognised nothing! I knew I wouldn't be able to ace the test, far from it, but I do know *so...

Starting this trip I decided I was going to do a few things differently compared to last year. I had a few resolutions that broke fairly early in the piece that I've tried to keep to this year. One of them was to go for a run in every city I've visited, I changed that to 'If the climate and time allow' and it's worked fairly well - I've had jaunts through Casablanca, Granada and Bruges to name a few and I've seen some things the usual tourist doesn't - some good ...