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It's great to be back home again :-)
On Saturday we left Kamien Pomorski at 5am which enabled us to spend the entire day in Berlin having another look around this beautiful city.
The Simpsons and the Tildesleys spent the day on the scenic city bus trip which tours around some of the most historic spots in Berlin. Zak, Ellie and I spent the day negotiating our way around the Berlin subway revisiting places we had seen on the bus tour on our first visit to Berlin two weeks earlier. The trouble for all of us was that the day was 44 degrees making it extremely hot!!
Despite the heat we had lots of fun getting to know the colourful history of Berlin.
The next day we travelled as a team back to the airport to begin our 37 hour journey back home. Our experience of getting the sail tube on the plane in Berlin was a bit more successful than our earlier woes in Hong Kong. This time Lufthanser seemed to have no worries taking the tube even though in Hong Kong I was assured that they didn't carry such items unless we paid for it. I think I might just have to go for a claim back for the money we paid in Hong Kong!
We came back through Tokyo where we had a wonderful day with Ken and Joe's Mum Masae as our tour guide. I think we had a snapshot of the city that most aren't privileged to due to the fact we had the expertise of Masae :-)
Sleep was welcomed on our last flight back home where we were very happy to see our families waiting for us at the airport.
The trip was an exceptionally wonderful experience for both the sailors and the adults. Joining with the two Australian sailors was a wonderful opportunity to strengthen our team and enabled us the opportunity to forge new friendships.
I know the sailors have all come back with new goals for their sailing for 2010 and 2011. For me I have had new insights into what it means to be a sailing mum :-)