Berlin

Ookkayyy So.

Berlin. What a cool fucking place. We arrived in reasonably high spirits and got to our hostel very easily. I say reasonably high because while the other 5 dudes were jumping around and full of hilarity, your intrepid narrator had the flu something hardcore. The phrase.. "sick as a dog" comes to mind very quickly!!

But, here we are.

So Berlin, is exceptionally cool. It has this awesome mixture of history, culture, in expensive-ness (for a capital european city) and a bitching party scene!

On the first day Kristian, Jake, Burnsie and Chun went on this massive walking tour of Berlin, while me and spence went out to just stroll around to our favourite spots. Being the hardcore travelling veterans that we are, we felt that we had kinda done Berlin and could not be fucked to go walking around listening to some american dude telling us shit we already know or couldnt be bothered to learn.

So yeah, we cruised around the Richstag, the Brandenburg Gate, The Holocost memorial and the TV tower, before spence needed to find a gym to pump his guns....

Now because by this point i was spending most of my time coughing and not being able to breathe i pretty much spent the next three days in a pub in alexanderplatz watching the cricket in an irish pub and drinking orange juice in some feeble attempt to up my vitmin C. I guess the other big thing we all did in that 4 days we were knocking around was the Pub Crawl.

11 Euro, 4 pubs and a nightclub with a free Jager shot with every drink you bought. Suffice to say it was messy. The first pub was this squat, that me and spence had spent quite alot of time at back in 06, but when we were there it was kinda edgy and aggressive for locals only its now this super touristy, mildly ritzy little beer garden. Sort of a Psudo-underground pub... Anyway from there we went to a few more bars all which kinda blurr into one and then finally we hit Matrix. Matrix is the big club in berlin for 18-25 year olds. And it was pretty bitchin, credit has to go to Spence and Kristian, both who pulled extreemly good looking american girls. I had a crack at one of their mates and got no where.... vintage Pat.

So yeah as you can imagine a night of heavy drinking didnt really do much for the immune system. So now im taking it easy till i get better in.... BUDAPEST!

Now this city is cool, me and Spence have 6 nights here!! And its so impressive, Budapest must have been one of the few cities not to get burnt to the ground by the Nazis during their retreat through eastern europe (the scorched earth policy for those playing at home) so all the buildings are still in really good condition! All the architechture is incredible. Your going to have to wait for spence to put the photos up on facebook... but yeah its seriously impressive.

The only downside is, that where i thought we had booked a four bed dorm for two people, they only have private rooms. Meaning that we have to pay for all four beds, even tho there is only two of us here. 14 euros a night for four beds, over 6 nights. You do the math. Its really really not cheap. But the city is soo cool we are kinda getting over the cost... i hope.

Anyway thats where we are at! i will blog again in a few days.

Pat