berlin was quite a very long time ago now. and i have been desperately trying to find time to update this ever since. fi has been and gone, as has katherine. i had a great time with both of them =].
so Berlin. we left the house at about 5, went to the petrol station in the village, which puts some tiny english petrol stations to shame, its very old school. had a major heart attack when i managed somehow to convince myself that i had filled up the VW with the wrong type of fuel. cue a very panicked phone call to dad, and some very poor german conversation with the lady in the petrol station. but it seemed to be all ok, infact we got to berlin and back on just one tank of fuel (600+ miles!!!). we arrived quite late, having managed to find the motorola offices just out of town (free parking at the weekends!!!:D) and a 20 second walk to the U-BAHN station (like the tube) where we bought our 4 tickets for 8 euros, which we never actually used. when i later asked dad what you were supposed to do with them we found out that if you did not validate your ticket for your journey then you risked a very hefty fine.
found the hostel and went to bed.
personally i get quite bored reading long blog posts unless they're very very interesting. seeing as this is not hugely interesting im trying to keep it short but to be honest how do you cram 24 hours of berlin into a short blog post?
rundown of the sights that we saw:
Jewish war memorial (all the big black blocks)
Brandenburg gate
Potsdamer Platz
Haagen Daas
The Reichstag (which we returned to at night and was pretty damned cool)
The Art Academy of Berlin
and im sure many more that have slipped my mind.
went out drank cocktails, came back to the hostel to find a half naked boy in our room. very odd. it was ok becuase he went back to bed. and we also went to sleep.
started drive home.
stopped to check tyre pressure.
concluded that tyre pressure was precariously low.
topped up tyre pressure.
drove home.
nice and concise :)
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