umm where did ileave off? i cantread my emails becuase germany has other than qwerty keyboards and its wreaking havok on my typing, the “y” and “z” are switched and the “at” symbol is on the “q” key, but i can type this=???? so thats cool. anyhow, im in k?ln and the d?m is huge, climbed to the top=534 stairs or so. but before that we ran into fat and mean conductors in italy so rome was a nogo, then spent roughly 18 hours on various trains getting from genova tohere, german trains are the best so far, and everone is much nicerso thats good, we`re staying with klaus dyba and the other owners of wethepeople bike company and have gotten help from jansoch of janosch?s bmx shop, its been raing mostof the time here, but we rode a cool park in s?liengen last night, then today john and i got fed up with the englishmen and took off for d?sseldorf and rode the brick trannys there and it was the best dayyet. as far as those english, they seem incr4easinglt thick-er every day, 2 days ago while riding around here they were once aghain followng us very slowly and then dissappeared completely, sowe (john and i) went back to the last place we saw them and waited for over an hour only to see them walking back casually and then be suprized when we were upset after they told us about this great bakery they found…i forgopt some stuff, we found a giant grass pyramid in paris, i have pictures someday….my finger is stillbruised, butim pretty certain its not broken…i now know what 2500 dvds look like.time to gofind the at key kids, tchu?!

p.s. i used a koffek?li the otherday, and stillunderstand some german, frau sam wouldbeso proud

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