Monday, 30 August 2010

Day 6- Berlin

Got a train for Brugges to Brussels.
We went out for 1\2 an hour between trains and then photographed ourselves in front of what we thought was the European Union building- it turned out to be the Belgium Pensions office.Fail.
We then tooka2hour train to Colonge, and then a 4 hour train to Berlin.
This sounds like a boring day but...I was doing maths on the train to Berlin, and the guy sitting next to me was from Indonesia and was really interested in it )and is now a engineering student) ,so I explained to him what I was doing,and this other guy was interested.There was also a French guy(who was reading Elementarie Differential Geometrie-WIN), he was interested also. It is a higher pleasure in life to do maths with foreigners.We then got to Berlin, passed the Reichstag and got to our hostel. For food we had the localfast food-german sausage with curry sauce and ketchup- it was pretty good.Now back at the hosel and that gets us up to date. We've met our first Brits also.
MuchLoveagexxx

Song for the Day- Smiling at strangers on trains- Frank Turner

Just for the record, the question i was doing on the train, was to find the shortest amount of 'track' between 4 cities,at the vertices of a square(of side say,of 100kilometres), such that every city is connected to any other (nb, you can do it in under 200root2km)