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Monday part 2 My dinner Ruettenscheid high street at night Whoops, QIMR not Clive Berghofer, though I think his name is on the QIMR building?

Monday 28 July, Berlin to Essen Up first, our last breakfast buffet - here's most of it. Honestly, it was probably better than I expected for a Hampton Inn after our experience in NYC last year. Plenty of German options to keep Mr Katie and me happy, and yoghurt and eggs and bacon to keep Mumma...

Sunday 27 July, part 2 We walked back to the station; the Imbiss (snack stand) at the station was open, which was a relief to get a bottle of water as we'd drunk all of ours. ~45 mins back to Berlin on the S-Bahn. Campbell was very surprised when he talked to us about our next plans -...

Sunday 27 July First up - breakfast and breakfast dessert! I only eat nutella in Europe. ;) At all of the brekky buffets, there were little cups, seemed to be made of the same stuff as ice cream cones, for your jams and nutella. We pondered what a coeliac would do and decided they'd just...

Looks good. I didn’t give Mr Katie proper instructions and he started to compare Menu A and B. :rolleyes: Oh, I have booked us at the Doubletree for now. Flights to be sorted.

Saturday 26 July, part 2 More Pride scenes, caught a few interesting outfits: Glitter beard! I'm not sure about posting these balloons. 🙈 Also seen in Amsterdam the following Saturday!! Overall, there was a LOT of street pee-ing in the area. Many folks were peeing in bushes/against trees...

Saturday 26 July As we're staying at a Hampton Inn, breakfast is included. *cue angels singing* We head downstairs for breakfast after 9am. Mumma Katie had already been down, as she was booked on a bus tour to Potsdam and Sansoucci. I'd seen both as a know-it-all 17yo *cough* many years ago, so...

I remember it being exactly the same style of questions when we entered the EU via HEL in 2018.

Hotel: Hampton by Hilton Berlin City West 1 Queen room interconnecting with 1 twin room Roughly between Zoo station and Savignyplatz SBahn station. I chose this one due to Hilton loyalty and it was cheaper than the Hilton at Gendarmenmarkt, where we stayed 11 years ago. The Teen wished we were...

OOPS Breakfast before arrival in HEL: Knitting progress Flight path - away from hotspots in the ME and RU (mostly) Coming in to land in HEL! OK, back to our transfer time in HEL. In the Schengen zone, we stopped by the Moomin store and bought the Teen some Moomin Papa socks. She loves...

AY132 Thurs 24 July SIN-HEL Finally, we can say we've flown from sin to hell. Groan. :p The Finnair amenity kit is a bit underwhelming. You can ask for socks if you want them. I think I used the eye mask and ear plugs and that was it. I really liked the seats. The only downside as a side...

Oohh, good idea ...

FIL update. We arrived home from Europe last Weds. Told the ILs in the group chat we were home. On Thurs, Mr Katie gets a message from one sister "call me as soon as you can". He calls her back in the afternoon, discovers that FIL was admitted to hospital on the day we left (24/7), spent a week...

Channel country views ... somewhere in Oz ... A tailings dam maybe?? Before arriving in SIN, I had the tamarind tiger prawns They were tasty. Our plane seemed to arrive right at the end of a pier in SIN. I haven't been through SIN in more than 10 years I think, but much of the...

QF291 Thurs 24/7 Operated by AY on AY aircraft. We have seats 2A and 3A and settle in for the day trip up to Singapore. I loved the new FinnAir J seats - I could even sit cross legged in them! Happy we got PJs on this day flight to help us for the next AY flight without them. Service...

Sitting in HKG waiting for our final flight home, which delayed by an hour. Let’s see what I can add to this TR … Happily, I got better after arriving in Berlin. Unhappily, a cold started going around the boat late last week and I’m sick again. Boo.

Thursday 24 July, we start our 35 hour journey to Berlin, our meeting point with Mumma Katie and the Teen. We’re flying AY and QF, BNE-SYD-SIN(QF291, AY operated)-HEL-BER. In the checkin queue, I decide to photograph all of our bags. This was a GOOD IDEA. Stay tuned to find out why! We have...

Over to the Mr Katie and Katie week in the lead up to departure. Weekend prior - spent tidying, washing sheets, preparing spare bedroom for our lesbian invaders, and making meals for the dog and the Teen when she returns, as well as GF and onion free for our first lesbian invader (aka dear...

Alrighty, we’re now half way through the Katie and Mr Katie portion of the trip, so time to start updating this thread. The Teen and Mumma Katie - Paris edition. They caught the Eurostar on a Sunday afternoon, and made their way to Hotel Meslay Republique, which Mumma Katie chose without any...

The Teen and Mumma Katie have completed their time in London and are now in their next city. Some London notes: On arrival, their luggage took almost an hour to arrive at the carousel. The Teen was messaging me to use the Apple Find My app to check they were in London and not in DOH still...