Friday, May 18, 2007

The Grand City of Berlin

Location: Belin, Germany


Levi and I just got done with a 4 hour walking tour of Berlin. We pretty much saw it all. This company called Sademen's New Europe offers free tours of a couple European cities, such as Munich, Paris, Amsterdam, and London. They expect you to tip the tour guide at the end, but for 5 euro we got way more than what we paid for.

Our tour guide, Nickolai, showed us many parts of Berlin, including the wall that remains as a momument, the place of Hitler's bunkers, Check Point Charlie, the museums, and an enormous amount of information in regards to the history of Berlin, the Third Riech, and communism. Great day, great great city, and TONS of pictures.

Last night we went on a pub crawl that is put on by the same company that does the free tours. That picture of Levi and I was taken by the photographer from the company and was posted on their website. I won't go into all the drunken details, because my mom will probably say, "I didn't think you went to Europe to drink beer." For 12 euro we got keg beer from 8:15 until 9, then drink specials at each of the four bars, free vodka shots between each of the bard, and free entrance into all the bars. We had fun, maybe too much fun.

Anyways, we just left the Easteners Hostel and now we're heading across town to another hostel. We're going to get our rest tonight and depart early for Prague!

1 comment:

Ray said...

You guys look great! Have fun east of the Iron Curtain... I suppose they have beer in Prague also.