Blogs from Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe - page 140

Berlin, Germany: Berlin is a very interesting city. It appears to be a very new and modern city, and you have to remember that most of the city has changed in the last 15 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall in 1989-1991. Even before that, the city changed dramatically during and after the German failure in WWII. Only a handful of the original buildings and statues remain from Berlin’s 750-year history. One of our first stops was to the Jewish Museum. I was expecting to find a very graphic and detailed museum accounting for the way Jews had been treated in Germany over its 2000-year history, but the museum is actually quite the opposite. It was very modern, and the museum itself was more of an exhibition of artifacts, letters, ... read more

Hello Everyone so my plans changed a little I decided to go to Berlin with Shawn instead of to Cologne once I hear from Kaili I'will make my way to Cologne and then to Prague hopefully I'll know by tonighht when I'm leaving for Cologne...anyyways Amsterdam was interesting to say the least a little too crazy. We walked through the red light district...most of the women I don't know who would pay to have sex with them...There are people on bicycles everywhere they take over they have more driving rights then cars it seems....Its just a crazy city we´d (me and shawn) wake up in the morning and step out of our room and you could smell weed at like 9 am at was gross most of those people were high the whole time. You were ... read more

Had breaky in the room. Put a load of washing on which was new and got to watch a bit of the hawks in action on afl.com.au just before lunch (yes Davo, we got spanked) Walked down to KaDaWe via the Ku'damm which is apparently the biggest department store in Europe and it is pretty damn big - 7 huge floors, had lunch there - currywurst, we dumped Michael at their groovy child care centre (more fun for hom than looking at stuff with us) and had a look around - it was all too expensive, the highlight for me was the €116,000 stereo on display - awsome, MTL I think it was and had the weirdest looking speakers. We then had afternoon tea near the bombed church left as a reminder of the war. A ... read more

Did a bit of shopping in Leipzig - Gabrielle bought some jeans, bought Michael a Bob Der Baumeister top, Corey bought a sausage. Drove to Berlin - pissing down rain, doesn´t stop most Germans from driving at breakneck speeds. Found the hotel (actually apartment) about dinner so went across the road to a supermarket and bought stuff for dinner and cooked it in our room - 2 sausages for me. sc = 4... read more

Hello to everyone. Well we have had an awesome day! I am so tired! Thats the sign of a good day I think. We went on a bike tour with the Fat Tire Bike Company, seriously these guys are so good, the bikes are so comfy, and its definatley worth it. We were on a general Berlin city tour, we saw so much! Lots of the same things as yesterday, but it was a bit different just because we were on bikes vs. walking and had a different guide. First we went to the statue of Karl Marx and Engels (his writing partner). This doesn't mean much to most people, however it does to me because I was forced to read most of these guys' famous works (ie. the Communist Manifesto) in my sociological theory course ... read more