Berlin

From Prague we boarded a train to Berlin. It was a really lovely ride. It was overcast but we could still see how beautiful everything was. Lots of green pastures, wind farms, cute little houses…..

Upon arrival to Berlin, we booked tickets to our next destination – Paris! The man was SO friendly and helpful at the travel desk. It was a really nice start to Berlin!

We braved the trains again and made our way to our hostel. It’s near a train station, which is handy – but that’s about the only good thing. We’re in a massive room with extra beds again, this time with a tiny little heater that does nothing. Our room is freeeeeeeeeeezing! The doonas are good, when you use two at a time. The showers are great – amazing shower heads the size of my head. No, bigger!

Berlin is nice, but it’s not as cool as Prague. It’s much bigger which I don’t like so much. Graffiti is appreciated here, as are long dogs of all kinds – the closer to the ground, the better. More guys have ear piercings and there are lots of sausages around (even a proper sausage on a McDonalds burger). It’s colder than where we’ve been but that’s because we’re further north.

Below: the massive TV tower at Alexanderplatz; Ebony in the cute little town we were in yesterday; me out the front of a building that we should probably know the name of in the middle of town.

We spent a day walking around town which was lovely. And then a day yesterday at  Sachsenhausen Memorial, which was a massive concentration camp during and post WWII. It’s free to get in unless you want to pay 3euros for a English guide thingy, which we did. You could spend easily your entire day there, it’s fantastic. The train ride there was lovely, as was the little town the train stopped in.

Today we’re going to play it by ear – the weather looks terrible and it’s suppose to rain all day. Tonight we’ll board an overnight train to Paris, where we’ll spend two nights and then hopefully head on to Caen on the Western coast of France, near where the Battle of Normandy was.