Guten Tag Europe!! Germany here we come!

We had a fairly painless 12 hour flight to Frankfurt and hung about in the Frankfurt train station for a few hours before boarding one of the two trains we were to take to get to Berlin. On a Sunday morning at 6am we were greeted by many party goers who were heading to Maccas before home after a hard night which was interesting.
The train ride was a little painful as at this stage we were feeling a bit of jetlag and got quite restless. We managed to stay awake though because the scenery was just beautiful.

We thoroughly enjoyed being able to buy a salad roll for lunch!
Lovely Annie (our best mate Hel's Mum for those who don't know) was awaiting at us at the station where we arrived and has been spoiling us rotten ever since.
So far we have done a load of washing (a luxury after 3.5 months of hand washing in random sinks and buckets - it never quite smells the same), had a bath, been fed some juicy home cooked food and even made a meal last night! We had almost forgotten how to use a kitchen.
It's really cold here at the moment and we are loving it as we realised that we have been in hot hot weather for 6 months now after the summer at home before we left. So it's just awesome to rug up and drink hot drinks and sit in front of the heater.
Clare relaxing in front of the heater.
Kristen, Annie and Dorothea in the loungeroom.







Hmm you would think that someone has moved in here... Clare is in here somewhere believe it or not!










Annie and Dorothea polishing their dessert after eating a meal of salmon cakes we made them.







Kristen in Annie's apron. What a novel sight!







We have spent the past few days wandering around Berlin and went on a small scale shopping spree for winter clothes as its freezing here at the moment. We were expecting things to be so expensive here but they're not! The main expense is travel. It cost us €89 to get from Franfurt to Berlin on the train which was a very short distance. The same trip in India would have cost less than 2!
Berlin is an awesome place. It's huge really! We have been exploring one district per day. We are staying in the best and currently most popular district called Mitte and went to the old favourite Charlottenburg yesterday. We are going back there today to visit the erotica museum and will also go to a holocaust war memorial museum. We went on Monday but it was shut. It will be amazing seeing the damage hitler caused not so long ago.

Here are some pictures of the past few days in Berlin:












Clare in the rain at the holocaust war memorial.





















Enjoying coffees out of the rain...












Kristen's first real German bratwurst.









We have even been able to get our eyelashes tinted and are planning on a haircut some time soon. It's so much cheaper than home for this sort of thing!