August 16th, 2010

August 16th, 2010

Well I have been riding trains for 7 hours now. Emily and I got up early at six to shower and pack our stuff. We had a nice breakfast then got all our rain gear on to head outside and catch the underground to Midi station. Emily is heading to Bruges for the night before meeting her mom in Paris tomorrow. Her train leaves every half hour and is a one hour train ride. I got my rail pass validated and got itinerary for Berlin. I have 3 lay overs, non being longer than an hour. I was on the train fir 9 hours total, well including waiting at the train stations. When I got off the train, it was super easy to find. The hostel is vey vey nice. Probably the nicest I will see while on my trip. Huge lockers in the rooms along with a separated shower and toilet, also in the room. As soon as I got all my stuff unpacked, I headed down to the bar and met a guy who was over in Ireland for a bachelor party last weekend and the wedding is not till this upcoming weekend. So he headed off for the week by himself. He is a nice guy and we shot the shit for a while before sitting down to watch the Manchester united vs. Newcastle game. After the game, I headed up to the room to grabb my computer and jumped on to video chat with Ellie for the first time. It was so nice to be able to see her while we chatted. I went into the hall to avoid keeping my roommates up when a couple French dudes who were passing by on their way out invited me along. We caught the train to one of their hostel's for a bit and then hoofed it out to this underground bar that was super small, but very unique and was playing some hard hitting, base throbbing electro music. Everone was smoking down there and after a while, I just couldn't take it anymore and caught a cab home. It was raining all the way to and from the club. It was called  edelweiss, by the way. Thought that was cool. Tomorrow is the walking tour, then pub crawl. Should be a good day. I love the whole feel of Berlin already. Talk to you all tomorrow!!!

Kurt