First half summary （前一半小总结）…

中文翻译在里面

We’ve reached the midpoint of our trip and I thought I’d blog a little. We’ve been having a blast sightseeing, eating and people watching. It’s really nice having Zhaoyang blogging for several reasons. Number one, she is way more diligent than me and more importantly it’s a great way to remember all the things we have done. And because she is writing for her family in China and using Chinese, she can write with more feeling (according to her) than she might if writing in English. And because I’m translating for her, with the sometimes unhelpful google, we get to talk about what we did and form a better shared memory of the daily events.

我们已经完成了一半（31天）的旅行，我觉得我应该总结一下了。我们看到了很多美景、品尝到了很多不同的食物、看到了很多不一样的人。赵杨能够坚持记录非常好，因为第一她比我更勤奋, 更重要的是, 这是一个非常好的方式来记住我们每天做的事情。她用中文写是因为她的家人可以看，也是因为她说用中文比英文写更容易，更容易表达想要说的东西。因为我在为她翻译, 有时谷歌翻译没有任何帮助, 要知道她的想法，我们便有很多的讨论和回忆我们都做了什么, 这样更加强了我们的共同记忆。

Berlin has been great, but it’s probably not our favorite city so far. Probably partly because its so sprawling and the streets are big with a lot of distance between places so everything involves much more walking to get around. Also, Berlin is probably the worst in terms of signage. We have found ourselves confused in several places trying to figure out a train; a ticket entry; a map, etc.

柏林是一个有趣的地方, 但我认为这是到目前为止我们最不喜欢的城市。可能部分原因是它比较大，街道比较宽和零散,地方与地方之间距离较远， 所以一切都涉及到更多的步行。此外, 柏林可能是街头标志最糟糕的地方，公共指示牌不是很完善。我们有好几次在坐地铁／轻轨的时候，发现都搞糊涂了, 不是很容易搞清楚车是去哪一个方向的。

Our second half of the trip will involve driving through Austria for 12 days, traveling by train through the alps and visiting some awesome places in Italy and ending our trip in Madrid. It’s amazing to think we still are only halfway through the trip!

我们此行的后半部分（31天）将涉及驾车穿越奥地利12天, 乘坐火车穿越阿尔卑斯山, 参观意大利的一些令人敬畏的地方, 在马德里结束我们的旅行。想想我们还有另一半的旅行要完成就很惊叹!

Tomorrow we’re going to the German Bundestag. It was a little tough getting tickets as they limit the number of people and require an online signup process. After that we’ll go rent our car and have the car for our last evening in Berlin … not sure what if anything we’ll do, but we wanted to have the car ready so we could just pack it up in the morning and be on our way to Prague!

明天我们要去德国国会大厦参观。这个的门票不是很容易取得, 因为他们限制人数, 并要求先在线注册。之后, 我们会去租车处去取车, 在柏林的最后一个晚上先把车准备好, 这样我们就可以早上收拾行装, 开车去布拉格!

We took a stroll after dinner to a place not far from our apartment where Anthony Bourdain had been in his last episode from Berlin. It was a bar called “Bellman”. We just took some pictures there and then went home. We had been at a restaurant the other day that Bourdain ha eaten at and we were talking to the people sitting next to us who knew Anthony Bourdain but had not heard about his suicide, so it was sort of a shock to them.

晚饭后我们散步，去了一个叫Bellman的酒吧，安东尼在他录制”未知之旅”柏林那集的时候去过的酒吧，恰巧离我俩的民宿有20分钟步行的距离。我们只是在酒吧里拍了几张照片就回家了。前天我们在一家餐馆吃饭, 也是安东尼去过的, 我们和坐在我们旁边的人交谈, 他们认识安东尼，但没有听说过他的自杀, 所以这对他们来说是一个震撼的消息。