Germany

Nothing extremely notable has happened in the past few days, so I thought I'd just fill you in on our time in Germany.

The first night, soon after I posted that last post, we stayed in Cologne (in German it's Köln) in a hostel right near the train station. Cologne has this huge massive cathedral that we didn't look inside but it towers over the area around the station nonetheless. We ate Chinese.

Next day, we took a train north to Bremen and were picked up by Mr. Arend Schmieder. We know him because his son Ole stayed with my grandparents in Tasmania back in like 1992. He took us north to a picturesque village called Frelsdorf. We stayed there two nights with him and his wife Renate. The second day, Ole arrived from Hamburg to visit us. In the evening, the four parents went to Bremerhaven to watch an Opera and Kit, Ole and I watched Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in German just because it was on TV.

Today, we left Frelsdorf and were first driven to Bremerhaven, then we took a train to Bremen, then to Hamburg-Harburg, then to Uelzen. That's the city where Friends' School's sister school, Lessing-Gymnasium, is. At the station we met Wiebke, the girl who stayed at my house in August 2007, with her mother. They helped us find accomodation. We are now in 2 double rooms in the Hotel Stadt Hamburg which is quite a nice hotel, I'm not too sure if it's in the price range we wanted but nonetheless we have one night of somewhat luxury before moving on to Berlin tomorrow, we think!

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Patrick