Da"mo´s bit

Guten Tag, Hola, G´day...

Well.. not much more to say that has not already been said by my beautiful wife.

Our dinner here in Barcelona was incredible, as has been the service from the good people here at ABaC.

We are staying on a street called Tibidabo which allegedly comes from the devil who trying to tempt christ took him to a high place and said "Haec omnia tibi dabo si cadens adoraberis me", loosely translated as "all this I will give you if you fall down and worship me"

I am happy to worship anyone or anything that makes me feel this good!

This place is truly 5 star and puts every so called 5 star establishment in Australia to shame. We will return... even if it costs us eternal dmanation in hell! Hmmm.. Sacrilicious!

The Swiss Alps were absolutely incredible and I recommend them to everyone. Beck disagrees but I feel assured in declaring Zurich the most expensive city in the world.

Eighteen bucks for a gin and tonic is over the top and it was not even particuarly good. We got our own back the next morning though with some fare evasion on the tram. That´s right... breakin the law overseas. We is international criminals now!! Well ard!

Beck has been quite harsh about Berlin but there were some great things about it. We got the late because of shitty Deautsche Bahn but our cab driver (who spoke german, turkish and russian but very little english) kindly hung around to make sure we were alright when we arrived late at our apartment.

As it turns out we were not alright as we had missed our contact who was going to let us in and our phones were not working. Strange city, late at night with no idea where to go but our friendly cabby was quite happy to use his own phone to ring our contact person and he stayed until she turned up to give us our keys.

He really saved our sorry tourist asses and it made me very happy to see how unexpectedly suprised he was when we slipped him a 20 euro tip. In the end we were all happy!

For the nerds, we visited the Luftwaffe museum and I saw one of the few remaining Komet jet fighters plus a whole load of other incredible historic aircraft such as Fokker triplanes and cold war jets.

If you don´t know why the Komet is unique then google it. They could have changed the outcome of WWII if introduced a year or two earlier than they were, and the Fokker triplane was made famous by a certain German Baron.

We also had a fantastic Michelin Star meal at a place called Rutz, as well as checking out Checkpint Charlie ( the central point of the cold war) as well as the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag.

You really could feel the history!

Anyhows, I have a fabulous meal to digest so must fly. Very much looking forward to doing some serious relaxing in Barcelona.

Miss you all back home and hope all is well. Feel free to post some comments so we know you are reading our blogs.

Leila, I hope the Chairman is treating you well.

Enjoy!

Damo. :)