30/01/2012 Berlin Today we decided the best way to see Berlin would be to do the Hop on Hop off tour for the day. It picked us up from outside our hotel, which was handy with how freezing it was outside. It was about minus 4 but because of the wind it felt a lot colder and chilled us to the bone very quickly! The commentary was very informative and useful to know what stops we would want to get off at. The first one was at the Brandaberg Gate. Second was ...

29/01/2012 Amsterdam to Berlin This morning we woke all refreshed and ready to continue our journeys. Our train was at 8:00am, we had breakfast and put on our backpacks, (mum I bet your going to laugh when you see what I'm about to write; my bag was exploding when I was packing it last night so when I woke up in the early hours of the morning, I actually hadn't finished packing but organised my stuff and I had to hide some clothes and my hair straightner ...