We were so tired when we
got to the hostel in Berlin, but we weren’t able to check on until 2pm, it was
only 8am. So I slept in the lobby on
one of the couches until noon when the girls came to meet us.
Bens friend Dan took us out and showed us Berlin…well more
like the Berlin wall. Some parts of it
are so eerie looking. There is even a
tower you can climb up and look down at the death zone area that has been
preserved. It was weird and awful to
think that that is how it was at one point and not too long ago. The things people did to try and leave –
homemade flying contraptions – are crazy.
One part of the wall is called the East Side Gallery. Local artists were able to send in their
work, if it was chosen then they got to paint/graffiti the wall. Its actually quite beautiful.
In the evening another friend that we met at the beach
joined us and we all went mini golfing.
It took a few trains to get there (we would just hop on, we didn't pay for any of them, I know we are bad) and we were going from train to train
while enjoying a beer…yes you can drink walking and train hopping.
The mini golf was awesome…it was 3D. You wear 3D glasses the whole time and
everything is painted in fluorescent colours and lit up with black lights.
Everything pops off the wall, or seems to with the 3D glasses. We had two beers but I’ll tell ya, I felt so
drunk and tripped out, like I had done a heap of acid lol. It was pretty cool.
The rest of the night was spent in bars. The first bar was a really cheap cocktail
bar. I ordered a cosmpoliton thinking in
was getting a martini. It was a cosmo
alright, on a pint glass! The thing was
huge, and full of alcohol….it was like
“excuse me, could I get some cosmo with my alcohol?”. Geez, the girls couldn’t
even drink their long island ice teas, they were pure alcohol with a drop of
mix, they forgot to put the island in
the ocean of alcohol. After that Jess
and I headed to the bar at the hostel and
Ben, Hayla and Dan went to a party which they couldn’t get into so they
came and got us and we headed to the ping pong bar. There is a ping pong table and everyone moves
around it in a circle hitting the bar, when you miss you are out and eventually
its down to two people, plus the drinks are cheap which is always a bonus. I think we got to bed at like 4am, said a
drunken goodbye to the girls as they were leaving for Prague the next and got
into bed.
Not feeling so great the next day we dragged ourselves out
of bed at 130, had a shower to make us feel somewhat human again and went out
to a hippie market with Dan and his girlfriend Monique. The market was huge and
even had bands playing…loved it!
That night Ricky and his friend Dylan checked into the
hostel so we had a couple drinks at the hostel bar and then called it a
night. Well, not so much Ben, he ended
up going out with some people he met in the bar and got back in at like 4am.
The next day the four of us went to do the free city tour
but we got there too late so Ben showed us around. We saw the Jewish Memorial and the site where
Hitlers bunker was as it is now a
parking lot. We caught up with the tour group
here but only stayed with it for ten minutes and then headed to the museum,
plus our guide wasn’t great and looked like he had just rolled out of bed and
not showered in a week.
We went to the Topography of Terror. It shows the years of World War Two, how the Nazi’s came in, had pictures of
shootings, bodies, had stories about murders.
My god, its horrible, I cried. I
cant wrap my brain around how people could do that to others. Disgusting!
We had planned to cook up a family dinner, but I guess I don’t need to tell you that it
went out the window when we bought a couple of beers and went to the rooftop
patio on the hostel. We ended up with a
huge group of us with beer, shots and then to the ping pong bar and then Ben,
Dylan and I ended up at this sketchy bar with 80’s music and we shook our
things on the dance floor. Best part was
we were the only ones in there, well that was until this robust German lesbian
decided she wanted a piece of me while I was shaking my thing. The boys definitely found it entertaining, I
got out alive. I believe we got to bed at 7am.
The next morning I woke up still intoxicated. Man did I feel unhuman, plus I had a message
on my Phone from Ricky asking me what time we were leaving for the
concentration camp tour. Shit! I tnrew
clothes on ran downstairs in bare feet and said give me 20 minutes. It was 11am and I had to wake Ben up because
he was supposed to check out at 10, well actually he checked out the day before
but got really drunk and checked himself back in. There was a knock on the door from reception
asking him if he was leaving.
Ricky, Dylan and I went to Sachsenhausen a concentration
camp about an hour out of the city. We again didn't pay for our trains. However, we did have one of the train cops ask us for a ticket. Dylan showed him a ticket from something else, I said I left it in my other wallet and Ricky just said he didn't have one. The guy said ok and walked away. So lucky.
When
we walked in to the Saccsenhausen concentration camp I stopped, I literally couldn’t breathe, I don’t know what I was
thinking it was gonna look like but this just hit me hard. Im not going to write about my experience, I
don’t believe this is something I should write about or take pictures of , it’s
a personal experience and an emotional one as well. It is not something to glorify and it is not
something that I feel should be posted out of respect for what happened.
Our plan again was to cook a steak dinner, our last family
dinner as it was the day that Ben and I had to say goodbye because the guys and
I were leaving for Prague the next day. However, once
again Emmie didn’t get her steal dinner, the boys wanted to go for Vietnamese
and Ricky paid for me because I didn’t get my steak so I really cant complain
and the food was really good.
Once again we went to the hostel bar had a few drinks and
then Ben had to go…it was a sad sad day in Europe. Europe was so upset that the clouds came and
ot rained L. It was sad, we spent the last two weeks
together, every day. It was weird to
think I wasn’t going to have him around anymore. We became best friends over night, and had an
absolute blast…I miss you Benny.
Of course the night ended up with heaps of drinks. Dylan and I ended up back at the sketchy bar
from the night before with a few more people from the hostel. However called it a night early as I was too
drunk and we needed to check out in the morning.
Waking up today was not fun, at the guys were quite
comfortable sleeping past checkout but we are now on the move. I'm sad to leave Berlin, its an amazing city in an awesome country. I love the beer and this wonderful condiment called curry ketchup which is the best thing in the world. I would like to say I will miss the German sausages but between those and the kebabs I have been eating I'm about to become what I eat, so leaving is good for my diet and also my liver.
Once again I am blogging from the bus…you would think I
spent most of my time on them. Im super
stoked Ricky and Dylan decided to come to Prague, though im a little
nervous. I have had a cold since the
beach, I have barley slept and Prague has insane night clubs so I don’t think I
have to say how the next 3 days are going to pan out. They are going to be nuts. Plus, the boys rented
an apartment for three nights and invited me to stay…oh boy!
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My Beautiful Life
