Berlin

We are in Germany (deutchland) or Berlin to be exact, our first non-english speaking country. It's very strange to suddenly realize that you are the foreigner. We took a bus from London. We thought it was a train when we booked it. It may have been a hot and grueling 20 hour ride, but it was actually pretty awesome watching Europe unfold through the windows. At Dover we went through the Eurotunnel. Here's how this thing works. You drive your car into this strange little capsule and turn it off. Our bus driver did this, and then we we're waiting for 20 minutes or so. I couldn't understand what was the hold up. Finally I realized we actually were moving--our bus had pulled onto some kind of undersea boxcar and we were racketing along to the continent. And then, France! We pulled up in Calais and drove on through Lille, then into Belguim, then Netherlands, across Germany, and finally into Berlin.

We're staying in a very nice and well equipped hostel called the Generator. It's almost 9pm here, so we'll probably take it easy tonight and stay around the hostel, maybe do laundry. That's all for now. I can't wait for tomorrow when we actually advance on the heart of Berlin!

-MCX