We Escaped!

Hello all. We are writing this from Bremen, Germany after managing to break free from the hold the ash cloud had on us. We are currently staying with family friends, Johannes and Gudi Mueller in Bremen. We arrived this (Thursday) morning after 31 hours on the move. We left Belfast at 4:00pm on Tuesday by bus. We took a ferry to Scotland and then got a bus to London. We got there at 3:45am. We booked train tickets to Brussels, Belgium (through the Chunnel) for 2:30pm, which was the earliest we could get. We then arrived in Brussels by train at 5:45pm. We quickly boarded a 6:30pm train bound for Frankfurt and arrived there at 9:30pm. Then, finally, we hopped on a train bound for Hamburg and got off in Bremen at 6:00am. We slept in a bed this morning for a few hours and feel a lot better about everything now. The last couple of days have been, shall we say, less than ideal, but we are excited to be here, in a house with great people, for a few days.