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Ultimate Europe Trip 2016 Day 8: Never 'Two Tired' to Explore Berlin

I'm going to go on a very short rant for a second. We as Americans need more vacation time. Everyone we have met while out in Europe gets 4, 5, 6, sometimes 10 weeks of vacation. I just want more time on this trip. Rant over. Sadly today is already our last full-day in Berlin and we had to get a lot accomplished in order to see everything we wanted. To do that we booked a 5+ hour E-Bike Tour. But more on that in a bit. 

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Ultimate Europe Trip 2016 Day 7: Food for Political Thought

We're already a week into our trip and still all I can think is that I just want more. Last night was the best night of sleep we've gotten. I'm to afraid to claim victory yet, but I'm starting to think we're fully adjusted to the European time zone. We woke up at a leisurely 7AM. While Jenn continued to rest past 7, I was able to go downstairs and go for a nice morning run. 

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Ultimate Europe Trip 2016 Day 6: Are You Not Into Trains!?

After hitting the publish button on Day 5 of the #UltimateEuropeTrip2016 post, I put away the laptop, packed up everything I could, and Jenn and I went to sleep. We knew that today would be a big travel day, and as such we wanted to get as much rest as possible. Sadly we are still waking up at some point during the night, usually watching Netflix before falling back asleep. 

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Ultimate Europe Trip 2016 Day 5: I Am-Ster-Dam Sad to Leave

How did we already get to the last day of Amsterdam? How is this even possible? I feel like I'm just coming down off the high of flying business class and yet here we are. As I sit writing this we are just about to pack for our train trip to Berlin. But lets not get ahead of ourselves, we had one full day left in Amsterdam and it was a great one. 

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Ultimate Europe Trip 2016 Day 4: We 'Frank'ly Needed the Rest

It's hard to imagine that we're already on our forth day of the trip, and our second full day in Amsterdam. So far the city has been incredible, far exceeding our expectations. Our plan for today was to take a day-trip to Brussels. However the tour we were going to do got cancelled due to a Belgium holiday and when we woke up at 6AM (after only a couple of hours of sleep after the red light tour) to make our 7AM train we realized that there was just no chance of us spending a full-day in Brussels on this little of sleep. So we woke up at 6AM, cancelled our train tickets, and went back to sleep. 

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