We took it easy on our last day in Bremerhaven pretty easy, since we were scheduled to leave around 2 pm. Uschi and Mark and I had breakfast together, and then went for a walk around a nearby lake and got some groceries on the way back. We had a lovely soup for lunch and then just hung out and talked until it was time to leave. We had several changes (in Bremen and then in Hamburg), and a major train delay between those two stations, so that it looked for a bit as if we were not going to catch the IC to Berlin. But our Mark-induced luck was with us again, and the whole system was backed up so that the IC to Berlin was also delayed, and we ended up running half an hour late into Berlin Spandau, where we bought take-out and some Broetchen for the next morning. Then we found our lovely privaely owned vacation rental 300 m from the S-Bahn station Messe Sued, which Uschi had recommended a couple of months ago, and which was truly a stark contrast with the last, commercial rental in Boltenhagen, which had been so barebones. This is an adorable two-story guest house which officially sleeps five but is much roomier, with nice furniture and a kitchen that could feed (and HAVE DISHES) for at least thirty. Plus, we were shown the homemade jam plus bubbly water and Berlin beer in the fridge for us, and we even have a plethora of towels and everything else we need for four days. The kids spent a minimum of time squabbling about who got which bed, and we were done for the night.