Willkommen nach Deutschland

Well, we landed in Frankfurt at the main airport. Tina didn't get any coverage with her Turkcell number, so she switched back to her Rogers number. By the time she had done that, we had no line to go through immigration. And then by the time we got to pick up our luggage, ours was pretty much the only ones on the carousel. Then we went on to the German train company to arrange getting to Berlin. We got our tickets and headed to the station in right next to the airport. Some people might say it is in the airport, but whatever. We hopped on a train and found a seat. We weren't actually sure if it was the right train. We also figured we were in the wrong class of car. So we rode that train into the main Frankfurt station. There we weren't sure whether we should stay on this train, or if we had to transfer. At this point, I thought we had missed an instruction, and Tina thought we weren't supposed to have gotten on the train at the airport. Either way, we figured that we should get off the train and then ask someone. We were pointed to the train across the platform and we scrambled on. It was a train we were supposed to be on, and so we found a place for our bags, and some seats. After securing some eats, we sat back and enjoyed the countryside some. We transferred with out any problem in Leipzig, and had a quick trip to Berlin. It was snazzy riding on a modern train, that at some points reached 190 km/h. The only other trains I have travelled on were between London, the Channel and Paris, and on the Royal Hudson trip to Squamish.

When we arrived in Berlin, our friend Carina managed to pick the exact door to stand by as we exited, right on the platform. She helped us catch a bus to her place. After dumping our stuff, we went to a pub just down the street where her friend Martin and others were celebrating Martin's 30th birthday. After some introductions, and beer, we had some mexican food. Berlin is very much an international city, as me, the canadian, was having mexican enchialadas in the Turkish quarter.