Germany, goodbye for now

We're leaving Berlin and Germany tomorrow morning to go to Prague. This is definitely the most excited I've been to go to a new city since we've been here. It's gonna be good.

Berlin was great. A really well spread out city. There is graffiti everywhere; that's the first thing that went through my mind when we were coming into the city on the train. Much of it is very artisitc though rather than the standard defacement and vandalism that is seen in the US. Culturally the city is a bit strange. It's as if the city as a whole does not have a true identity. Keep in mind this is coming from someone who has been here for all of two days, but I think it is fairly obvious that the cultural recovery from the East-West split and the aftermath of the wall coming down is still going on.

On a more fun note, today's tour was really informational and interesting. It was the first truly nice day in terms of weather since we've been here as well so that was a plus. Hopefully it will continue. Nate covered a lot of the bases in his post so I won't reiterate.

I will speak about last night though as it was largely hilarious. The whole pub crawl thing is basically designed for its customers to get super shitty and splurge all kinds of money. There is a limited amount of time when you get "free" beer so we (and everyone else) just pounded down as many as possible. Throw in the free shots and the time in the bar and by the time we got to the second bar...well you know. We had this incredible meal before going out with this girl Katie that we met at our hostel at a dungeon-like bistro. I had an enormous club sandwich with all kinds of goodies on it. That mixed with the bier inhalation led to difficulties. I can't tell if that picture Nate posted was taken before or after I induced the vom but based on my smiley face I'm going to guess after.

We left the crawl after the third crawl because they were going to take us on a tram and there was no way that was happening. Nate tried to lead us back because he "has a great sense of direction." Not surprisingly that didn't end well but we made it back after only a few wrong turns. Saw some of the stupid-pirate-hooker-from-Wisconsin-broads on our tour today that were on the crawl. Apparently they are awesome simply because they are from WI. Sorry girls, but the cons far outweigh the pros and you are living, breathing proof.

Had a great pizza meal tonight and now we are about to head to sleep. Prague tomorrow! Hoo-ra.

Cheers,
Levi