Hi all! This will be another long one (Surprise, surprise) - hands up if you want the dot point version... shall include it anyway: * Went to lunch and the Blood Brothers musical * was in a car accident with Mariana - but all ok and no injuries (Volvo proved itself to be virtually indestructible again) * Went to the Shakespeare Globe theatre and...

Ok so my journey to Berlin was a little more eventful than I would have liked, 2 hours into my train from Prague we just stopped. Then there were a bunch of annoucments in German, with most of us standing around looking confused. Luckly a really nice German couple in our car was able to translate for us and tell us that the train broke down and ...

Whew....Oktoberfest is over. I had spent 5 long days having the most fun of my life but I needed to get away. It just makes for a long day of singing, dancing, and drinking and to do it five days in a row can be taxing on the body. I have only a week left in Europe now and I need to be up in London on the 28th but I had to see Berlin for at leas...

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Ok....so where do I begin? I guess I should start with yesterday seeing as I didn't get the chance to blog. (I will have to add photos later once I get back to my sister's) We ended up not doing the Happy Mosel bike thing. We started planning late, then the bikes wouldn't all fit in the car and stuff. So we bagged that plan and made others. My s...

So its day II in Berlin. (well really the end of day 2 anyways) I am really in love with Berlin. Its such an amazing city with the mix of old and new, and greenery. Its almost hard to believe I am actually here. I had another amazing day, with an early start. I was really out last night, I guess between the 2 hours of sleep on the train and all ...

Hallo Ajoissa ja virkeana ylos kohti huippu aapparia. Pari toastia ja kulhoillinen muroja potkaisivat paivan oikein mukavasti kayntiin. Ilmoittauduimme heti aamiaisen jalkeen ilmaiselle kavelykierrokselle, samanlaiselle kuin munchenissa. Kierroksen veti Maria niminen nainen, joka oli valmistettu ruotsissa brasilialaisen isan ja kiinalaisen aidin...

Jizz, (Koska matka oli edennyt niin reipasta tahtia paatimme suunnistaa etelaan rauhottumaan) Eilisen hauskan illan takia missattiin aamiainen ja myohastyttiin reilu tunti checkoutista. Eikun kamat Luggage roomiin ja stadiin aikaa tappamaan. Aamupaivalla kaytiin hakemassa junaliput yojunaan, Pariisiin. Iltapaiva meni kierrellessa ympari Berliini...

Alrighty...well here is the start of our Berlin trip....we were there for quite some time, but we met some rad people....so it was fun to just mash around and have a great time. Time is precious on these damn internet cafe things....sooo things are going to be brief. Day 1 Arrived in Berlin around 8:30am after a gnarly 9 hour bus ride from Berli...

Morjentes! Berliinissa vierahti 3paivaa nopeasti, paljon oli nahtavaa ja tehtavaa. kaupungin nahtavyyksien kiertamiseen olisi omin avuin mennyt pitka tovi, joten menimme opastetulle kavelykierrokselle, joka kesti n.5 tuntia ja siina kierrettiin kaikki kaupungin tarkeimmat historialliset rakennukset. Berliinin muuri, Checkpoint Charlie, Hitlerin ...

28th May - Berlin The tour officially finished after breakfast but you could choose to take the Contiki Bus back to Berlin. Just over half of us choose to do that. After we said goodbye to the ones staying we left at 7:45. We then drove, drove, drove. It was about 9 hours driving. We had one 15 min stop & two 45 min stops. We arrived in Berl...

In Berlin we stayed at the Circus Hostel near Rosenplatz. Since it was monday and everything was closed, we did the walking tour.

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Hello everyone! Sorry it's taken a while to get round to but here is my news and views on Berlin. So... well, where do I start? I absolutely loved this city. So different from all the other places I've been so far, at the moment I think I like it even more than Paris. There's just so much to see and because the most significant events in Berlin'...

Day 10 (Thursday, 3/8) Berlin Having spent half the day in Prague and the other half on a train, I arrived in Berlin late-ish on Wednesday night. I wasn't in Berlin an hour when I became promptly overwhelmed at all there was in the city and how little of it I would be able to see; I decided, then, to spend my first full day on a walking tour and...

Fun Guide! Lots of history and interesting stories.

OK everybody so most of you know that I am home now and have been for a couple of days, but I never got round to finishing off my travel journal as I could not find an internet cafe where I was allowed to upload photos (I know, very strange). So, I'll try to remember what happened and in order to, which might be harder than it sounds! DAY ONE We...

This day I decided to tour by myself, so I asked a local tour guide what was good and off the guidebook route and ended up down south of the city in the giant park and eventually checking out a massive Soviet memorial with bas-relief stone square blocks depicting the Soviets entering Berlin and finishing off the Nazi regime and a huge memoral st...