Berlin

Ok, so I'm really slack and haven't posted anything for ages. I have no excuse, I'm still unemployed!

Anyway it was my birthday a while ago and my wonderful Mummy and Daddy gave me some money(thanks parents!), so even though we are flat broke we managed to get some cheaps flights to Berlin so we could catch up with my friend from school Jyoti, her sister Kiran and her mate Lauren. Here's a picture of us all enjoying a traditional German meal at a pub (except Lauren who's a vegetarian which isn't traditionally a German thing i don't think!)

As usual we checked out the culinary delights. We sampled the curry wurst which was basically a sausage covered with tomato sauce (they use a ladle!) and then sprinkled with curry powder and served with a bread roll. We also checked out the Berliner Wiesse which is beer flavoured with syrup. Either Raspberry or Woodruff (whatever that is). Anyway it was pretty sweet and you could get it in a bottle, or in a glass with a straw. So not really a man's drink. haha.

Of course we sampled the pretzels in all varieties. The pumpkin seed one was the best.

And to top off the German experience we had some apple strudel.

This little man is the cross walk man. He's pretty cool and seems to be the mascot of Berlin. He's everywhere! This was at a shop dedicated to selling merchandise with his image on it. He has a little German hat, and so did the disabled person sign on the road. How cool is that!

We spotted this crazy bike cruising down the road so we decided to go for a little tour on it. It was heaps of fun, but a little bit scary at times. I was convinced at least one person was going to be seriously injured, but we were lucky. We left from Brandenberg gate and went down to the Reichstag. We then cruised along the river and through the Tiergarten (a huge park in Berlin) until we arrived back at Brandenberg gate and went in search of Bratwurst. Pretty good way to see the sights though.

We came across this beer garden with an urban beach. Pretty cool. They should totally do this in Perth. We hung out in deck chairs here for quite a while drinking beer and eating German treats.

We also checked out the Jewish museum while we were there. It was kind of a cross between a museum, an art exhibition and scitech. There was absolutely heaps to do and after a few hours we were wondering if it just went on forever. Anyway we finally find our way out and went in search of food (again).

We spent our last night on a pub crawl through the city. Plenty of gin and tonics and jager bombs were consumed and a good time was had by all. We ended up at a really cool bar that was kind of like being in a junkyard! Very random place, but very cool.

All in all we had a great time. Berlin is a really cool city and i can highly recommend it. It was awesome to catch up with the girls, the only bad thing was the bees. They're everywhere!

As usual there's pics on Flickr so if you want to check them out then click here