Panorama Am Adenauerplatz Htl Berlin

... the room where 3 stinky boys were still sleeping, we walked down to the Sony Center. Its a huge complex with shops, a big fountain in the middle and a movie theater. After dinner at a really cool pasta place we decided to watch a movie as Harry Potter was playing in English.

The next morning we took in a city walking tour where the wall once stood, Hitlers bunker,check point Charlie and various others. It was most of the day and very informative ...

... vibe about it. On display were bugging devices and spy cameras as well as photographs and propaganda posters. There was also a solitary cell on display. There were not many visitors and I had the strange impression that the display was more like a scrap book than a professionally run museum. It was a very interesting experience and one that I'm glad that I had to compare with my other visits.

... chilled" is more appropriate as our apartment only felt "heated" once, the whole week) apartment together, in Kreuzberg Berlin. Kreuzberg is technically "former-west", but was surrounded on three sides by The Wall, so was sort of a forgotten peninsula where squats and artists thrived. Kreuzberg is still very much alive that way, today. It's unfathomable to me that the event was only scheduled for four days, since I seem to have about three weeks ...

... is going to come in handy. We have decided to camp out for the rest of our journey in Europe thus saving money and meaning we spend more time in beautiful natural locations in Portugal and Spain. Nice one. We need to buy a cooker though so we can have the odd vegan sauso when we want to. We are not really in the head spaces for the city at the moment. Berlin city is large, 3.8 million people and has lots to see and do like superior art exhibitions ...

... the club where billy works where we managed to get in for free. it was amazing. on the top floor of a 20story building and played THE most awful music. so here i was, after getting up at 6am that morning at 24 kersland street, dressed in this rediculous outfit dancing with a bunch of people i hardly new to "who let the dogs out" with the entire skyline of berlin as a backdrop. as first days go. thats a pretty great one!

... I had the chance to learn the history of anywhere (this seems to happen when your stuck in a mining town). As I wasn't wearing a watch I didn't notice time was getting away from me and as I started to read about world war 2 the notice came across the speaker system that the museum was closing, I had spent just over 6 hours reading everything I could (that was written in English). If anyone goes to Berlin I recommend a visit to the history museum. I left the museum ...

... and you can see it through a glass pane in the ground. As we had been walking that morning, and even the day before, most people in the group had noticed the Walk/Stop lights, or as we called them, the "Stop-Go Man". These had been the traditional lights in East Berlin, and after unification when signs would stop working they would be replaced with the traditional West Berlin Walk/Stop lights, as normally West Berlin was seen as having the 'better' way of doing things ...

... row you will see a guy crouching in the middle, right behind him is a girl in glasses, right next to the girl in glasses is me, I'm kinda sticking my head out to be seen. I'll edit a photo and upload that one too. The free tour was really good, the guy was really smart and was from Australia and had studied abroad and decieded to stay (don't worry mom and dad, I don't speak German) and was getting his Ph.D. in German History and was writing his thesis on the Nazi's. He ...

... a hotel in Berlin. So I did the true hospitalityclub thing and told him that he could come stay with me as well. So, I called Anke and she said it was fine except that he would have to sleep on the floor, which he didn't mind - problem solved. Ron, the Peruvian, and I arrived at the main train station and had some food and watched the football match for the third place in the world cup and I ate some Currywurst (if you don't know what Currywurst is, read my first blog entry). I've ...

... to the train station to get our extension pass for the Eurail to Prague. We thought the office opened up at 8:30, but really it opened at 9, so we sat around for a while waiting for the office to open. It was so frustrating because the guy was just sitting there, doing nothing but he wouldn't help us. We were able to get everything though and it was easy to do everything which was good. We met up with the others and had about 3 hours of sight seeing before Nathan, Mandy and I headed ...