My German/Euro Trip (1)

what do I write about this 3 and a half months trip? Should I try to give an overall picture? Should I just write what I remember? Or, should I write the interesting/weird snippets alone?
Having mercy on the audience, I choose the last.

And so, without further ado, let me dive in!

- Traveled on a ship from from Stockholm to Helsinki. Drunk a bit (using the complimentary coupons :-)); Stood on the deck staring at the moon in the midst of the night, in the midst of the vast, endless ocean; Made friends with a half-finnish/half-indian lady, who was traveling with her third (african) husband, and listened to her story on how she broke up with her second boy-friend/husband. (I swear I was not that drunk, but I still lost which of the guys was a boy friend and which was a husband).
- Stood for 5 hrs on a cold, wet evening (extending in to the night), in the centre of Berlin, with an American friend, to watch the domino fall event (commemorating the fall of Berlin wall). And finally got too exhausted and returned without watching it :-(
- Did some German-English, English-German translation, facilitating the conversation between the American friend and a German Paatti on the train back from Berlin. Realized that translation job is not all that difficult, provided your audience knew only of the languages each.
- Ate a Spacecake in Amsterdam; and ate another because there was no effect; and ate a bit of another because there was still no effect; and finally.... when it all hit after 3 hours, panicked, shivered, cried for help and collapsed in the midst of the station;
- Had dinner with a chinese guy who made special noodles for me, listening to his stories about China and his father's business.
- Tried, repeatedly and yet, unsuccessfully, to explain to a bunch of frigtened Germans that a steaming, simmering pressure cooker is not about to burst, but is just going to whistle.
- Tried eating meat for the first time in life - starting the auspicious occassion with a fish burger in stockholm

More to come later...

Ciao!