Cheap internet means I will come back and upload photos when I can!

only 1 Euro an hour at this little Asian/Spanish owned internet hub, compared to 2 Euro for an hour at the train station in Hannover and 2 Euro for ten minutes at the hotel!

But right now I have other things on my mind, like shipping home a good portion of this stuff that my packrat materialistic mind so naively insisted on bringing!

A quick update *PART1

Took the train from Deutschland to Switzerland, Switzerland trough France and Spain to Barcelona on the southeast coast. Could not have made the trains and accomplished all that I accomplished without the help of all the people I met, and a little luck!

After our four hour train ride to the edge of Germany to go to Switzerland, our train was late so we were not able to make our next train, but because of the help of a very nice German and another very nice Swiss lady, we were abe to find the necessary schedules to take another train to our night train, which we COULD NOT MISS, and we made it with ten minutes to spare because of their help!

Before getting on this connectin train to the night train, I decided to get my Eurorail pass validated since I neglected to do it previously (I didn't realize Eurorail needed to be validated, let alone in person), but to my chagrin found that there was a DMV/like number system, and there was no way I would make my train.

Again, I was helped twice by very nice people--the first time I was given a ticket that was two far away, but I was later given another ticket that just in the nick of time got my pass validated! This was a very good thing, because while the first ticket checker on the train from Hannover did not check to see if my pass was validated (while I very carefully projected an energy of inoccuousness and a right to be there) the second one did, and I would have been forced to buy another ticket had it not been validated.

Met a very interesting young guy on the train to Switzerland who was originally from Italy and actually tooks some notes on his account of Italy's history. Interesting quote//politicians can be "bought for a bag of spaghetti." Another Italian on the train heard this conversation and became very offeneded, and they started arguing in Italian, but the guy on the train said that he was "From Northern Italy" where what he was referring to is less ubiquitous.