Berlin Berlin Berlin! Where to begin...This place felt so modern, efficient, and well, German. We arrived with no place to call our home for four days. We found another Wombats hostel and asked if they had vacancies; they did not. So we ended up at another nice hostel called St. Christopher´s; Problem was, they only had a vacancy for one day...which meant we spent our time in Berlin in a different hostel each day since other hostels had the same problem. No worries. It felt like a different Berlin each time.
On our first official day we went on a Free Tour. The deal is this: You meet up with someone from the company that takes you to the meeting point where you are with other budget minders, and then paired up with your tour guide. The guide takes you to all the interesting spots Berlin has to offer ( Jewish Memorial, Berlin Wall, Brandenberg Gate, Checkpoint Charlie, etc.) and is also entertaining along the way. At the end, you decide how much to pay the guide since he ultimately works on tips. We had a really cool guy named Ben who was so much in love with Berlin he wanted to marry it if he could...
I also have to mention we ended up going to a pub crawl later that evening hosted by the same company. It was pretty much a group of people (some from the tour earlier that day) that venture d to five different bars and then a dance club. There was limitless supply of vodka-orange for everyone! It pretty much got Nat and I good and drunk and we danced the night away to crazy German pop music.
The next day (afternoon?) we awoke to Natalie being officially sick; she was coming down with something earlier but it hit her the day after we drank too much remedy (beer) the day before...oops. So we spent the day at the Museum Quarter where we laid out on the grass and ate Pho noodle soup from a nearby Vietnamese restaurant. We thought about Lisa and how this soup was really pronounced...
On our last day we visited the Bauhaus Museum, where an important design movement occured in art history; I was actually not as impressed as I thought I would be. There was more furniture and building design than the others aspects they covered in class ( posters, paintings, packaging) but it was still informative. We then headed north to the outskirts of Berlin to see the model concentration camp Sachsenhausen...it was spooky being there when no one was around ( we kinda got there late, but the place still left an impact).
We ended our last night in Berlin with a Krugerl (huge pint of beer) and said goodbye to this crazy town.
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