ich hei(funny big B thing)e eine fu(funny big B thing)ball jahre deutschland

First of all, I wouldn't bother translating that title if you can already understand it. Ask Laura if you're really desparate.
I don't really have anything particularly exciting to relate, coz Berlin was absolutely amazing and a great city but nothing particularly exciting happened. Except on our way back to the airport when we all fell asleep on the U-bahn and woke up in the depot with all of the power shut off and us trapped in the then sealed train, with 45 mins until flight departure. Thank god for the lazy maintenance guy who we could see reading a porno mag is all I'll say! The laughs continued when everyone except me got off the shuttle bus 2 stops before the airport. Not so serious, you'd think, at least for me, except that they'd given me their passports to look after. I'll tell you for nowt that that was a character building dilemma: do I actually catch the plane myself and take their passports with me to england, or miss the plane and wait for them? I never got as far as any character definition though because the plane was an hour later anyway. But before anyone does mentally consign me to hell for all eternity, let me reassure you that I would have waited. All that pales in insignificace compared to what happed to Auke on Sunday though. But that's another story. Ask him.

Joe