9th August 2012

Today is the day we start our return trip to Australia. After being away for 13 weeks it will be good to be home again. We have enjoyed most of the trip tough there were a couple of days that would rather forget, but I guess you get days like that and you just have to cope with them.

Today we drive from Potsdam to Berlin, where we catch a plane to Frankfurt. Late tonight we catch the next plane for . ingapore, then to Brisbane and finally Townsville.

Last week we were at a little town called Teterow where our hosts have their summer house. We swam in the lake, canoed on the lake and managed not to fall in, and went for a game of golf. We were also taken to Rugen Island to swim in the Baltic Sea, which to our surprise is barely salty at all, but still as cold as ice. We also saw a play there at a village named Ralswiek, the play is performed outdoors with the bay as the backdrop to the sets. The location was stunning, the sets superb and the play was good even if it was in German and we didn't understand a word. It was about a pirate from these parts way back when, and we had had the story explained to us before we went in.

This is the beach at the Baltic Sea, lots of people sunbaking but not too many swimming it was so cold in the water.

These are scenes from the play we saw "Stortebeker Tod"