we made it we have arrived in hello good  morning good afternoon i think it is actually  

the afternoon well it has been a chaotic 24  hours as we try to get ready for our very first  

international trip since the pandemic since yeah  yeah since january 20 no january 22 january 2020  

was when we returned from our last international  trip wow it's that's a lot of months i'm not even  

i'm not like over 20 months 18 yeah it is about  yeah it's about 19 actually yeah something like  

that um so yeah i feel like we've almost  forgotten how to vlog how to pack how to  

get ready how to sort how to film here film  documents it's been a lot it's been a while  

but my gosh are we excited yes we are going to  a destination that we're not going to tell you  

actually i think what we're going to do to make  this fun we're just going to drop little clues  

throughout the video and see if you guys can guess  that sounds good um and we'll reveal it when we  

land but right now we're behind packing so we need  to get going we forgot how to do everything guys  

everything but yeah we're excited we're happy i  think we're gonna leave you here and we'll pick  

it back up at the airport or maybe we'll bring  the camera upstairs there's family visiting it's  

chaotic there's a lot going on see you see ya what  did you nearly forget sam oh my gosh my computer

thank you for following my stuff but when  i carrier no i can carry the day pack

made it to the airport thank you sister  she's a working professional at the airport

hmm

open sesame seed

all righty meal time first meal of many because  we came to the airport early since my sister had  

to start work that's right but i mean it's like  four hours til our flight it is so what do we  

got first let's lift it up and show the peeps the  pipes we got indian food and your butter masala  

that looks so good it does look good this rice  so this is one of two flights right two flights  

we're not telling you where we're going oh yeah  don't reveal the secret we should give a clue  

all right i'm gonna tell you clue number one  our flight time is under eight hours less  

than eight hours where could we be going are we  allowed to see what direction we're heading no  

okay no directions that's all right your  first clue while we eat our first meal of many  

okay round two officially here round two  i'm not sure we should be eating this much  

before an overnight flight but whatevs here we are  having putin it's our last slice of uh canadiana  

huh let me take off for a while for a while oh  wow look at those curds ooey gooey cheesy curds  

good stuff rice covering oh yeah should  we give our next clue we'll say it's not  

west we're not flying west that's  not a very good community yes  

is from toronto we're not flying west that is what  we're going to leave you with while we stop our  

faces with putin good evening good evening good  evening greetings hello so we are at our gate  

yes almost ready to board and we thought i hope  you can hear me through this mask you know yeah um  

we thought we would give you one more clue as to  where we are headed what would that could be i was  

thinking the clue could be it is a country we have  previously visited and filmed on youtube oh yeah  

yes let's leave it at that more than once  more than what yes more than one okay

we have very good news the best the best focus the  best news we are not sitting with anyone else look  

at the lake space actually i can't really see it  empty this is awesome on long haul flights this is  

a slice of almost business class we'll be  able to get some sleep oh yeah yeah i love it

me

good morning good morning good morning we  are approaching we are beginning our descent  

coming up to land soon yeah we are in terms  of the flight it was a pretty decent flight  

um i'd say about a medium level of turbulence  but considering we crossed the atlantic we've  

had much worse than this before so just a  little bit of sleep um but anyways we want  

to give you the final clue ooh what could it  be so at this point we're willing to tell you  

it is in europe yeah crossing the  atlantic with a bit of a giveaway right

so sam here is of the opinion that  the best way to get over jet lag is by  

eating it's just stuff you're gonna be  eating and eating if it's lunch time  

in the local check out this schnitzel sandwich  

it's huge huh yeah and then we've got a salami and  cheese one here sparkling apple what's it called  

apple short it's like apple juice but  fizzy like with mineral water oh it's aphil  

charlotte there we go let's try this enjoy your  meal that's a nice big piece of schnitzel and  

sandwich these are premium sandwiches i remember  that about germany in previous trips just how much  

we love the sandwiches we eat them at bus  stations train stations on the go there's so  

many good bakeries and especially sandwiches  here wow and the pastries don't forget those

hello we made it we made it we have arrived in i  am so jet-lagged i don't know if we've revealed  

the destination to you yet but we may  or may not guest we are in germany  

and specifically and specifically the city of  hamburg yeah so we actually flew into munich  

that was our seven hour and forty minute flight  um your first clue and yeah then we had a bit of  

a layover there it was a good layover so much so  that i was i basically passed out on a chair for  

half of it and you captured that sam was the king  of napping the king of siestas if i had not been  

there you would not have made your connecting  flights well i'd still i'd be in germany but in  

munich i'd be in the other part of germany oh  man the itinerary would have changed yeah but  

we wanted to talk a little bit about our travel  experience this being the first time that we're  

traveling in this post-pandemic world yeah and  i mean there were definitely a few interesting  

things along the way for starters you you need  to be vaccinated or you need to be tested or  

you need to have proof of recovery in order to  enter germany exactly right now we had to show  

both of our vaccinations yeah they were checking  it at numerous stations yeah so they checked that  

in canada before we got onto our flight in  germany and they also even checked it when  

we came to our hotel this evening they wanted to  see proof so just something to be aware of they're  

also stricter with masks here you can't have a  specific type of mask which i'll show you actually  

yeah so i was wearing my uh my halifax cloth mask  no cloth masks yeah i i kind of like when i was  

told hey you gotta you gotta change this i was  looking around i'm like oh my gosh yeah no one  

else does have like a homie yeah so they want  the surgical style mask exactly and what else  

so the other thing that i mean i obviously  noticed was the flight over to germany was  

wasn't at full capacity it was about 70 80 we got  really lucky with that middle seat makes all the  

difference to sort of be able to sleep we took  turns back and forth i'd lean in he'd lean in and  

we kind of napped on that overnight we kind of  nap but it was somewhat of a turbulent flight so  

yes not too much of it but it was kind of like  the mild turbulence that when you're lying down it  

feels like you could be on a boat or a train yeah  you got you kind of kind of tricking yourself yes  

so the flight from munich to hamburg was as  smooth as can be one hour long yes we flew with  

lufthansa always a pleasure every single time  yeah we've had a lot of good flights with them  

like the best experiences are with that airline  and then we arrived in hamburg and then we had to  

to seek out transportation so it involved taking  a commuter train okay so we took the s-1 into the  

bonhoeff which is the main central station and  then from there we had to transfer to the u-bahn  

and just travel two stops so we're not too  too far away we're staying in huffin city  

which is kind of like the port area where you  have the old red brick buildings it's probably  

the most beautiful and iconic part of it exactly  i was that's that was the word i was gonna say  

it looks so iconic it looks like when i think of  hamburg any pictures or images or videos i've seen  

this is the hamburg so it's so cool we couldn't  be in a better location we're surprisingly feeling  

decent i mean we didn't definitely didn't get our  full sleep but we're feeling good it's like six  

or seven pm we've showered hot showers refreshed  clean clothes we're gonna go out for dinner we're  

gonna have a nice walk maybe visit an attraction  or two yeah and then we're gonna go to bed at a  

local a reasonable local time please and let us  sleep through the night that's the goal so that is  

our plan to beat jet lag if we if we can do that  on night one we we we might have smooth sailings  

there it really depends i don't allow myself to  sleep i'm like i'm too excited to be here i feel  

like part of it is we're running off of a bit of  adrenaline we haven't done a trip like this in  

well years so it's so exciting it has been  almost two years 20 months guys 20 months we're  

so excited to be here and um yeah so i thought we  would also give you a little overview of what to  

expect in the upcoming videos so for this trip to  germany we are teaming up with the german national  

tourism office for the first 10 days or so so  they've created a really cool itinerary where  

we're going to be showcasing a lot of smaller  and lesser known destinations even though we're  

starting and finishing off in big cities hamburg  and berlin there's gonna be a lot of like tranquil  

places more tranquil destinations in between so  we're super excited there's gonna be castles and  

that suits us well cute towns and then afterwards  we've decided to extend our flights and actually  

spend a full month in germany and we are planning  to head south down to bavaria so i'm really  

excited for the mountains the hiking so nature  the food oh yeah oh yeah i can't wait so from  

north to south we are starting in hamburg yes and  we're gonna finish in the south of germany we hope  

you'll stay tuned for that whole series i think  it's gonna be awesome we're pumped we we couldn't  

have more energy for this yeah we couldn't be more  excited so uh stay tuned for plenty more episodes  

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