We've been in Berlin for a little over a week now. We've mostly recovered from the sunburn we got in Taormina (it's all too easy to get sunburnt when you have clouds and a pool), and I'm almost recovered from the stresses of Etna. It was a fantastic experience though.
Right now, I'm trying to juggle work (finishing off projects from before the holiday) and apartment hunting. Oh yeah, Sophia got accepted into FU Berlin, the University she wanted to change to, so she's now in the progress of switching and she has to give notice on her apartment in Passau, and we have to arrange transport for her goods. I think it will be an expensive affair, this moving business. But I'm looking forward to having a Zuhause again. In every place that I've stayed since 2004, I've treated it as temporary lodgings, so I didn't really settle down.
I'm also deciding whether I want to find a proper job here and go mainstream, or continue contracting.. Or maybe both.. I think it will come down to a combination of money and life satisfaction in the end. I can afford to wait for the right opportunity, though.