Blogs from Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe - page 142

Berlin... is soo rad.. instead it should be called really old beautiful place where if you dont speak german or arab you have a huge language barrier that makes you laugh every 3 seconds and angry everyone inbetween. Yesterday was our first day.... and we conquered our stupid jetlag by staying up on the plane, talking alot and forcing the evil tired eye syndrome away. anyway... yesterday we did alot of laughing at people.. getting free drinks and chocolate... finding our way through huge airports and trying to keep ourselves entertained. We took the U-baun and some some sketchy people then came to uncle randy's place. which is sooo beautiful!!! it is very old.. and big and decorated like egyptianish... i love it... you would to.. whoever you are. today kat and i woke up at ... read more

Ok...so Berlin is amazing. Everything about it is unique, and it is totally different from everywhere else we've been. It feels like a european city, but the visual history is limited since so much of the city has been destroyed so many times. The people are probably the friendliest we've encountered yet, which was very unexpected, but obviously very welcome. It's really not a city I could ever really see myself settling in though, because the history really does give it a permanently very eery feeling. Our first day in town we took a free (!!!) city walking tour which was amayzing. It was basically an extremely condensed 3.5 hour history lesson. I won't go into details cause seriously it would take me forever, but the highlights (probably all spelled wrong cause I don't have any ... read more

Our trip began on a train that took far too long to depart from the station. I was told that European trains had a very set time table and were very close to NEVER late. From the experiences we've had thus far I can say that apparently this fact isn't true. Emily and I were actually running a little late to the train station this time and were definitely speed walking to find the platform, train, and a place to sit before departing. Once we sat down both of us were feeling a bit sweet-toothish but because we didn't have time to stop somewhere before boarding we decided to look for the food car on board but were stopped by the sleeper car nazi who wouldn't let us through becuase in order to get to the ... read more

In the words of John F. Kennedy Ich Bin Ein Berliner (I Am A Berliner), well atleast until the weekend. We arrived in Berlin on Sunday and have been staying in a very cool hostel in the centre of town. After 10 weeks of solid travelling, sightseeing and yes, drinking, we have used the past few days as an oppurtunity to take a well earned rest, well atleast from the travelling and sightseeing :) The past fews days have been filled with reading, playing guitar and sitting in the cafe drinking coffee. Very relaxing. Anyway since there is not much to report I thought this would be a good oppurtunity to put some photos up (we have around 600)... read more

Ange and I headed off to Germany, the land of bratwurst, currywurst and all other wursts, leaving Nott'm EMA and arriving in Berlin Schonefeld around 10pm. We hopped onto one of the ever cool S bahn trains to get to our hostel. The trains in Germany are awesome! and we made great use of the tracks. Arriving at our hostel (Generator Hostel Berlin) was a bit of a feat because we took the long route. However the long route proved interesting as a very drunk man was aimlessly walking on the other side of the street (a great big wide 4 lane street) yelling and cussing at the trees and cars. It was quite entertaining but not enough to merit us sticking around, as we rapidly walked the mile or so to our hostel. We found ... read more