We asked everyone we knew to share the first leg of journey with us in Berlin. Knowing that some would not be able to make the drinks in Reading or see us over the Christmas period, we figured it would be great to spend New Year with as many as were able to make it. Planning on joining us there, were my mother, Denise, and her husband, Steve, my wife’s brother, Jaime, a good mutual Australian friend of both of ours, Chris, as well as a German university friend of Anna’s, Thomas. We landed in the evening of the 29th with enough time to make it to the hotel, not far from checkpoint Charlie, and checked-in before meeting with Denise, Steve, Thomas and his friend Michael for dinner. We headed out in search of food close
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