day 8. ich spreche kein Deutsch. so.. i finally made it to my first stop, Osnabruck, where i was supposed to originally catch my connecting train to hamburg — i ended up getting a hotel room because there were no hostels and no trains to hamburg for 6 hours. i had a good night sleep and then a little walk about in Osnabruck and grabbed some brekfest — i tried out my german i had learned on the train and ordered schinken und kase — they dont believe in warming up sandwiches, or maybe i needed to say heiB!