The day has finally arrived....We are driving on the autobahn!!! (Well Norm did) Berlin was fun but we wish we received better weather. It was chilly and rainy for most of the time and our very last hours there were no exception. We had to walk quite far to and from the metro stations to arrive at Sixt, our car rental company. Luckily picking up the car went smoothly and we got our VW Passat station wagon in a jiffy. Norm was not too fond of the station wagon at first but after driving for a few minutes in Berlin, he realized that most people drive station wagons. (We think that's because station wagons are the equivalent of minivans in North America.) We were surprised that it takes quite a long time from the Berlin city centre to get on the autobahn. Luckily the car had a GPS and finding our way was quite easy. (How did people have roadtrips without a GPS?!) The autobahn is famous for not having speed limits in some areas of the highway. The fastest Norm drove was 205km! Even at that speed, cars were speeding past him. Norm wanted to go a little faster but the car wouldn't let him (phew!). Our first stop on our journey was to visit Christoph in his hometown called Braunschweig. Christoph described Braunschweig as a typical German suburb, nothing exceptional, nothing terrible and that is exactly what it was. Christoph's parent's place is very cool though. His neighbourhood used to be houses given to Nazi's for their services but now that time has passed, the houses have been renovated. Their house is definitely not a cookie-cutter house and they even have a guest house. We also learned that in Germany, every house has the names of the inhabitants listed under the doorbell. Cool or strange? We had pizza for lunch from one of Christoph's fave pizzeria and he gave us a tour of his town including the city centre. After a short detour, we were back on the road to Koln. The rest of the drive went smoothly. Every driver was considerate and a good driver except for one person and he turned out to be an older asian guy -__-
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| Hi! |
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| At least we knew we had the right house! |
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| Pizza lunch |
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| Guided tour of Braunschweig |
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| Our baby for the day |
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| Christoph's (parent's) pad |
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| vroom vroom! |
When we finally arrived in Koln we met Matthias for dinner. He was in Koln for a meeting and luckily it was on the same day we arrived. He took us to a local German restaurant that serves the local Koln light beer called Gaffel Kolsch. Gaffel Kolsch is poured in 0.2L glasses and once your glass is empty the waitor will bring you a fresh glass without you even asking unless you put your coaster ontop of your glass. The waitor keeps track of how many glasses you had by ticking your coaster. First time seeing that system but it definitely makes sense!
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| My type of beer (light) and my size (0.2L) |
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| LSE reunion continues |
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| German pasta |
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