Munich That seriously seemed like the longest voyage of my life. Even Australia, which took over a day of travel to complete, felt less long than this. Berlin->Munich is killer. Even the ICE, the InterCityExpress, Germany�s shiny new technogism of a train, which goes at amazing speeds for most of the voyage, took forever on this trip. It wasn�t even really the time that killed me so much. Nice->Z�rich was longer, actually, but what got me this time was the fact that the damn train kept stopping every 20 minutes. If we had just gone a consistent speed, stopped at the major stops as was needed, the time could have been half, but today it just kept stopping and going, stopping and going. If one had no tactile or gravitational sense what so ever, one could tell when the train had stopped again as the babies that had rocked themselves to sleep on the gently vibrating floor of the train would wake up and want their mandala back. I�m with the babies, frankly; the whole experience was infuriating. Memoirs of a Geisha Great book. The character of Sayuri is an amazingly intricate construction. That was probably the best thing about the book: the way one immersed oneself in the life and surroundings of Sayuri almost effortlessly. The greatest books bring you into their world and you don�t notice the difference until you put them down. Memoirs was such a book. Definitely recommended.