Appartement Hackescher Markt Berlin

... split all ov** what was form**ly East B**lin and got an earful of many tales of the two B**lins, the fall of the East, the WWI and WWII histories, oth** tales on things that w**e happening between politics and politicians and so forth and so on. The guide was good. he knew his stuff. he talked a mile a minute and we walked almost that fast it seemed. many times th**e was no opportunity to take a photo at all as we only had ...

Berlin. Is. Incredible.
I was thrilled when ulrike mentioned she needed to go to berlin for an internship interview, i was hoping we'd be able to go. To be honest, all i expected was to see a bigger city and look at some of the wall and holocaust history. It turned out to be so much more :)
Getting there was interesting. II left the youth hostel on Friday morning at 3:30am to get to the bahnhof. It was trickier than I expected, even though Ulrike had given me the details ...

... the best so I slept in while Amy went off to do the free walking tour (that I had already done) with Wen, Melinda and their friends. I got up at about 11.30am and then spent the next few hours watching the rest of Goodfellas and all of City of God. It was really good to have a relaxing day before what we expected to be a big night. When Amy got back from the tour she decided to have a nap so I went out ...

... us. While we were waiting for our connection to the second train we got some lunch. We had a bit of a scare because Bobby and Sara got lost on their way back from getting food and Garrett had gone off the get soda when our train got there. Fortunately everyone was back with a few minutes to spare and we boarded the train. On the second train we got a quick German lesson from the ticket checker. She tried to ...

... our way to the mailboxes etc. in order to courier out our Chinese visa information. The only problem was, when we got there we found out they had been closed for almost an hour. The owner was leaving though, and informed us we would have to come back Monday. This was unfortunate because it looks like we'll now have to stay in Berlin for 10 days instead of our original plan of 5 days. Not that Berlin is a bad place to spend 10 days, quite ...

... outside of Berlin! So the last ride for the night was perhaps the most amusing of all. There were also lots of hitchhikers at this place and although I was first I let the others go first - I can't remember why I did this, but they bought me some chocolate for my generosity. Two of them were going to a rally against government surveillance - they gave me a sticker that had the name of the minister behind the idea with a slogan "STASI 2.0" written on it. The STASI ...

... the Tram to go back to the hostel. And we didn't get lost once! Although we came close when we were near the hostel as there are two stations that have almost the same name! At the hostel Kristy was attempting a nap, but by the time I got out of the shower she'd decided that it wasn't going to work, and got up and got ready for the Berlin Dinner and Nightlife tour. That night I had a fat moment, and couldn't find anything I wanted to wear out! I hadn't bought many ...

... all different types of food!! OMG!) and dilapidated buildings and head to have a beer (I will never taste beer the same again). After that we look for the restaurant that Andrew recommened us to eat at with very typical German food (so good!), then we call it a night because by this point its so cold, and dark that its not worth being in a weird part of town. So we head home because the next day we were headed to the concentration camp. Now we didn't make it to Poland (in ...

... parties and cultural activities. It is sort of like New York City, but has a lower price tag, cleaner streets, and more disciplined crowd (well, they are Germans, so...). So far in my trip, I haven't got opportunities to rough it up yet. Every place I stayed I all ended having my own room and bath facilities (including that one night in Sofitel Athens Airport). But the hardcore backpacking experience is just about to ...

... get in, pretty typical for a museum of this extent, and after checking our coats and using the FREE restrooms and checking our e-mails quickly we headed into the labyrinth that is this museum. We learned about the history of Judaism and their lives through history, and even personal belongings of people who either escaped from Germany or were smart to entrust there belongings to their Gentile friends, so the Nazis didn't get a hold of them. There were also a few artistic type memorials ...