Berliner

Lets see... lot of ground to cover. Berlin was interesting, 4th of July, we had duncan donuts at at the Brandenburg gate, drank cokes at Checkpoint charlie and, hunted down the American Embassy to see the flag. The embassy is well protected by all the streets blocked off with massive concrete barricades and a roving squadren of police. For dinner, we splurged on burgers at Andy's American Diner. The last day we were there, we visited schausenhausen concentration camp, the first camp and the one all others were patterned after. It was the site of horrific medical experiments on children, mass murders, and torture. It rained the whole day, a fitting tribute. Everyone should see a concentration camp. After the Nazis, the Soviets refitted it for thier special prisons run by the NKVD. Its now a haunting memorial.
That night, we almost didnt make it to the night train. Getting to Flåm is a bit tricky. We had to take a night train to malmo, and another train to oslo. Twice, we have gone to the station and discovered that the train leaves from a diferent station, making the trains with mere minutes to spare. I triple checked the tickets, and the timetables, and we arrived 30 minutes before the train was scheduled to depart. We asked which paltform it was on and they told us it was at another station. We ran to check this with a platform attentdant, and he said that we shouild catch one of the metro trains to the next station. We waited and waited until five minutes befroe oour train was supposet do depart at 11:08, and gave up. We would be forced to lose a day and would have to call all the hostels to change the dates. Chase actually changed Olso, and I calle dour hostel in berlin to reseve a bed. We were sitting on the platform steps when he attnedant found us. He said we could still make the train. Keeping our berlin resrvation, we skepitcally boarded the metro, nothing to lose but sleep. It was waiting for us, held back 50 minutes due to the station shift. We made it with 10 minutes to spare. Teh train actually boarded a ship across to sweeden from Germany, and rolled of in the morning. More later, as people want to get online now.