During these days, the airports around Europe & the UK were closing as winter chaos was setting in and so even if they had no choice, returning to Edinburgh at this time was not necessarily possible. Money was running so low they didn't even have the fare for a flight anyway.
For the first time, the prospect of actually having nowhere to stay and being out on the streets of Berlin was a real possibility. Rather than weaken them this had the effect of bringing out a courage and strength they hadn't yet seen in themselves. The certainty had never been stronger - they couldn't leave Berlin.
On Sunday night at the Winter's Hotel they had just enough money to book one more night at a basic hotel/hostel in the Kreuzberg area of Berlin, contemplating homelessness. By Monday afternoon money had incredibly come in and on Tuesday they checked out of the Jugendhotel in Kreuzberg heading for Friedrichshain where they now somehow had got together an apartment for 2 weeks.
The night before Dave & Kate had been chatting about the system and being kids and how parents have to dupe them into feeling excited about school by bribing them with new crayons, etc...
