Goodbye Berlin

After four wonderful days in one of my favorite cities, Berlin, annie and I went to a travel agency to book bus tickets to Prague. We couldnt find tickets under the Internet time constraints. Well, we got tickets for a 6:15 am Bus. We didnt want to pay for another night at the hostel because we'd have to leave so early and skip breakfast. (this was more of my idea, and I had to do some apologizing to annie later) we stayed in the little common room area for a while until the kids from the club came out and made such a ruckus, then we moved up to the 7th floor where there were some mattresses laying in the hallway. we were just going to sleep for an hour, but security found us so we got up and caught the train.

I will mention that we did a really fun Pub Crawl the night before in Berlin. It was my first Pub crawl, and a very fun experience.

A Bit of the Wall


T-Punkt!


well, now in Prague, a hustle and bustle little city on hills. our hostel is nice, it has a kitchen and...free internet. so we will try and book some couchsurfing places for our next destinations. cant wait to get out and see the city tomorrow.


love

ßerlin

We are in a gigantic hostel in Berlin right now called GENERATOR.... it has a wopping 900+ beds. It is set up sort of like an electrically charged warehouse.

Yesterday we wwent to an outdoor market and looked at some german trinkets and got really cold. had fun doing a collage at night.

Today we went on the freee walking tour of berlin. it was awesome. this city has so much history tht is so interesting to me, and i feel like i know more about it. we saw all the great famous sights, and even stood on the ground over the bunker which Hitler took his life in. We saw the window michael Jackson almost dropped his baby out of and some otehr great sites.

well, gotta go look for train or bus, or plane tickets to get to the next place.


we plan on doing a fun Pub crawl tomorrow night.


love all

Amsterdam

after a weekend of West England, We arived in Amsterdam and have been wondering around for fun. more updates to come.

love

Easter Breaking

Easter Break starts on Friday, and I am very excited.

We start off on Friday by heading heading toward Bath and Cornwall with Annie's mother. we will see the English coast and stonehenge.

On Tuesday the 18th Annie and I have a flight from London to Amsterdam.
March 22nd Amsterdam to Berlin
March 25th Berlin to Praha
March 29th Praha to Budapest
April 1st Budapest to Krakow
April 5th Krakow to Warsawa
April 8th Warsawa to London

These are just our temporary plans. all we have booked so far is the flight to Amsterdam and then home from Warsawa.

I am very excited about all of this. I have been working hard this week to complete assignments so that I dont have to worry about them over the break.

when I can get to a computer, Ill try to post an update so keep checking.

Computer Love

I was just listening to Kraftwerk's album "the Mix" and the song Computer Love came on.


And i thought that synth line sounded really familiar. thought a little harder and found Coldplay's song Talk...which i guess samples the synth line.

anyway, pretty cool song.

Oxford

Annie and I had a wonderful 3 days in Oxford, which is just north west of London about 2 hours by bus. We had our first couch surfing experience. We stayed with 5 oxford rugby players. They were very nice to let us stay there in the living room.

In the day we traveled around through the ancient city and wondered down small coblestone streets and poked into the university chapels, libraries and museums to soak in the history.
Our couchsurfing hosts took us out to a nice dinner then out to a club where all the oxford students go.

we stayed just down the road from Gypsy Lane


The non-classic Oxford buildings are covered with really cool paintings


In the covered market. some dead pigs hanging.


At the Gates.


Bishops Chess


Our dancing silhouettes against the dance floor lights



We also went to the Oxford Castle which was once a castle, then a jail up until th 1996 then now a 5 star hotel. it is closed to tourists unless staying there. Annie pulled a pretty slick move and acted as if we were interested in staying there, so we got the full tour of the hotel. It is really cool. each room is the size of three jail cells and the jail doors are kept the same. A very nice place to stay, but about 300 pounds per night.

Such a beautiful smile

Sushi

A group of friends and I have been taking turns making a meal for everyone each week. We have had a lot of really great food from many different countries. Last week was my turn, so i thought i would make one of mom's specialties and my favorites...Tuna Sushi.
Annie was visiting me so she helped cut up all the vegetables and crab, and I rolled them. We made a lot and they all got eaten.





It was a fun night, but i wish i had gotten a picture of them all on the plates.

Peace Now

last week...maybe the week before that. im not sure. Well, I went into London's Parliament Square with my group member to film a documentary on the Peace campaign that has been there since 2001. Brian Haw, who established the camps has been camped out on the hard sideawalk since 2001, and we went to capture his story.

It was a nice day for filming, we got a lot of footage, and the interview with Brian. We also were stopped by several law officers and issued a search a ceasure ticket which i will post later.

Brian has been through a lot in the past years in Parliament Square, and although his attitude is a little bitter (but rightfully so after being beaten and robbed by the police) he still screams his message at the police and any politicians that come out of hiding in parliament square. I will post the documentary when its complete.

Flags in front of Big Ben


Tents on the sidewalk

GO Dog G0o

a dog annie and I found. took him around town, tied him up and forgot.