Thanks for the lovely welcome back!

James -- as near as I can remember, this is how the wifi situation went. We stayed in five different hotels in five different cities.

Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany: Free wifi available only in the lounge on the first floor. And you had to have a password. (A fellow guest had found this out and gave me the password.)

Oberammergau, Germany: I heard that wifi was available for a pretty high fee, but I wasn't in the hotel long enough to try it.

Salzburg, Austria: Wifi available for an even higher fee. There was a computer in the lobby with free Internet access, so I was able to use that once or twice, but usually with someone waiting behind me.

St. Wolfgang, Austria: Free wifi available in the rooms! Score! (The hotel in St. Wolfgang -- the White Horse Inn in English -- was the nicest one we stayed at, in a number of ways.)

Munich, Germany: Had to use a computer in the hotel lobby again.

So I was able to get on now and then. But a lot of times we had very little free time in the hotel. Our tour guide was a ball of fire with a most impressive schedule!

Not to go OT, but any details about the lack of access over there? So many American establishments offering wi-fi; is this not the case over there?

Did you get a job being paid to look cute and perky on TV, like Samantha Brown?

Welcome back Gina. How was Europe?

Gina, I've hardly slept since you left. I've been horrified at the thought that you might spot an editable error and wind up trying to do for Europe what these guys tried to do for America: http://www.amazon.com/Great-Typo-Hunt-Changing-Correction/dp/0307591077/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1284238334&sr=8-1 Imaginary headlines would awaken me; "American Woman Arrested For 'Correcting' Dickens Statue's Inscription". The thought of you languishing in some European jail while Kim and DtS continued to overwork themselves by filling in was just too much to bear.

But you appear to have returned, safe and un-arrested, so now I can sleeeeee-zzzzzzzzzzzzz....

Thanks David and Kim.

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Gina, let me be the first, on behalf of a fiercely loyal, if widely dispersed, virtual community of admiring fans, to welcome you back! Kim and DtS did, indeed, fill the role with peerless competence and flair, but even as “only Nixon can go to China”, I believe all would agree that “only Gina can wield with consummate editorial skill the now-famous YOD that has so effectively preserved The Point’s second-to-none reputation for orderly excellence.

In short (as Mr. Micawber might say) – jolly good ‘fellow’, we missed you!