6 months of talking, planning, emailing, researching and booking finally culminated to this... the wacky Eurotrip where we transcend to 3 far-flung countries in an attempt to see the continent. Wong and I first concocted this journey way back when I was still employed in Japan (yeah, a long time ago). And at 2:30a on Tuesday, it began with us dragging our semi-coherent selves to a freezing cold bus stop to catch a ride to the airport.
Now, since this is the end of June, one would expect sunny skies with warm shorts and a singlet type weather, right? Instead, London followed us and landed in Hamburg shivering. After some light shopping, we headed up north to Kiel to see some of Wong's old friends. Upon our arrival, the clouds thought it would be funny to dump buckets of water on us and threw in some hurricane-like winds for good measure.
For those of you who don't know your German geography, Kiel is located to the north off the south-east corner of the Baltic Sea and is known for its sailing events. Although not much sailing was to be seen (missed that by a week along with perfect weather), it was a nice change not having to deal with all the tourist pedal-pushing that I've growing to love. Would I come back here? Probably not but at least I can say I was here. And that's all that matters.
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