"Beerlin "
Trip Start
Nov 13, 2006
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Trip End
May 13, 2007
Berlin,
Germany
Sunday, May 6, 2007
We arrived at 5:30am weary from our travels from Turkey and made our way into the city and found the apartments that were booked for us, and found out we could not check in until lunchtime. The guys flight was due at 9:30am so we had a few hours to kill and we used this time to go see the Jewish war memorial and the Brandenburg gate and Reichstag which were all situated right beside our apartment. We thought this was great as some of the guys (Damo and Peter) were only in the city for the historic sights anyway. It was nice to see these places so early in the morning as there wasnt the huge throng of tourists there yet and after an hour walking around, like true travellers we found a park bench and grabbed an hours sleep !!
A War memorial
! When the lads flight arrived we decided to prepare for their arrival by finding a nice quiet bar to maybe have a coffee and catch up on the last 6 months together. We found such a place and then the boys arrived and reality hit home !! These guys tricked us into thinking they were in Berlin for the culture, but in reality it was for 3 days and nights of non stop beer and partying that went by so fast it is almost a blur .............. or maybe the blur is because of all the beer !!! Anyway we all got together and had one hell of a party and I think Brian (the stag) enjoyed his bachelor weekend . Its funny how Irish people spend so much money to go away for a weekend and spend all their time in Irish pubs when they get there !!All in all it was great to see the guys and there were so many funny moments and stories that I just could not put them in writing, but after 3 days suddenly the guys had left for home and the reality was, we were still travelling !!
First thing we had to do ( apart from recover from the excesses of the weekend) was find new accomodation and after that we needed to buy bicycles and tents etc for the long journey home !!
Monday morning we were treated to some spectacular rain storms .............. hardly a good sign for our bike trip and Tues was even worse so it was Weds when we finally managed to leave the city and start our journey north west for Hamburg !!
