The first few days in Germany

Monday morning Peter, my uncle for those of you that don't know, picked me up from my hostel in Brussels. We then went to Charleroi to pick up Randall who flew in from Sweden. Charleroi claims to be Brussels south, but it is nowhere near Brussels. A good 40 minute drive from the outskirts of Brussels puts you in Charleroi. After picking Randall up, we headed to Peter's house in Gransdorf, Germany. The drive was a decent distance, took about three hours. Gransdorf is a tiny rural town, I've been referring to it as "cow country". The area is really beautiful though, and a real change from everywhere else I've been so far. That day we hung out at the house, and it was really good to see everyone. For dinner we hit up a German restaurant in the next town over and I had my first schnitzel, I love German food.

Yesterday I drove up to Bremen to pick Sarah up. Randall was my faithful navigator for the whole 5 hour trip, and was very helpful. Driving on the Autobahn is not at all what people make it out to be. Sure in some areas there is no speed limit, but Germans are very good drivers and it forces you to become a good driver. Bremen is very cool city, we saw the city square and the river. It's very northern European. Then we turned around and drove the 5 hours back, arriving at 2 am haha. It was a pretty long day.