Airport express setup with iPad and no computer -- possible?

In September I will be staying a week in Germany in an apartment that lacks wireless but does have a broadband LAN connection. I would prefer not to take my MacBook Pro and, instead, rely on my iPad 2. But there's the rub: no way to connect via ethernet. I do have an Airport Express I could take with me. Is there a way to use it, creating my own wireless network, without having a laptop with me and using Airport Utility to set it up? Or am I stuck with lugging my MacBook Pro?

Is there a way to use it, creating my own wireless network
What I do with my Airport Express is to configure it to create a wireless network using DHCP at home before I leave, and then wherever I am, I just plug it in to the network via ethernet cable and turn it on. The Airport Express will grab an IP address from the ethernet network and create its own network that you can connect to.
So far, that has worked for me everywhere I have been.
From reports it appears iOS 5 will have the ability to configure an Airport Express, but we don't know the release date of that.

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