Berlin

Today is Day2 in Berlin. What a cool city! There is loads of things to see and do here, and tonnes of history. I would recommend a visit to anyone, unless I didn't like them.

I'm staying in the Heart of Gold hostel. Can you think of the theme? If not, Don't Panic. Naturally, they don't provide towels, but luckily, I brought my own.

My first day here, I did a bike tour (a great way to get around here too - seems to be a Germany thing). It was sunny and warm out, so that helped too. It lasted pretty much all day. Afterwords, I headed directly (I mention 'directly' to show pride in my navigation skills) to the Reichstag. I waited about an hour to get it, which I would argue beats getting up really early. I don't love waiting, but I really don't like getting up early.

I went for Vietnamese for dinner (convenient timing), which was delicous, if nothing like the Vietnamese food in either Canada or Vietnam. I also has a Berliner Pilser the size of my head. I thought, 'why not have a beer with dinner, it looks good and super cheap', but I should have asked myself, 'why not get tanked, by myself, here in this restaurant?'. Either question, the answer is clearly, 'hells yes'.

Today I spend the morning at the East Side Gallery, aka the longest standing stretch of the Berlin Wall with all it's grafitti. In the afternoon, I mingled with about 100 of my new best friends in Haus Am Checkpoint Charlie. Then I had a quick 'lamb' (read: not lamb...beef?) donair (Berlin has a huge Turkish population), and here I am having a bit of a sit down and hiding out from a bit of a downpour.

Looks like it has let up, so I'm off again.