Day 2!
Day 2!
Wednesday 18th June.
Sindy had to go to school in the morning but she gave me a key before she left and said she would be back just after lunch. I didn't know my way aroud yet so I just came to the internet cafe to check emails and stuff, did their dishes and watched the view from their balcony while I waited for Sindy to get back. When Sindy came home we had some lunch and then finally headed into town. It's hard to remember now what we did that first day... Oh yes, we went right to the centre of Berlin and we were going to go up into the needle tower (I can't quite recall the name of it... Fernsehturm or something) but they'd put the prices up to 9.50 euro, Sindy was going to shout me the trip up but it was a bit much. We walked through park areas (they have them all through the city) and along one of the roads, looking at shops and fountains and things, it was pretty cool though it was quite warm. She kept saying I could go into this museum or that museum but for me I don't visit cities to see museums, I'd rather look at the outsides of buildings and such. We wandered aimlessly for a bit and then caught a bus to go a bit further down to the parliament building called the Reichstag. I took some pictures of it but we decided not to go up yet. Just around the corner was Brandenburger Tor, or the Brandenburg Gate, so we went and took pictures of that. Then we went for a walk towards one of the canals and sat watching the boats go past on the canal for a while. We walked a bit longer and check out prices for a boat tour, and then went back towards the Reichstag and caught another bus, which took us on a bit more of a tour. Then we went back to the train station and stopped off at a weirdish supermarket on the way home to get some stuff for tea and headed back. We had some dark german bread, which was okay. :-)
We were pretty tired from the wandering we'd been doing so we crashed pretty early again, maybe 10:30pmish.
Wednesday 18th June.
Sindy had to go to school in the morning but she gave me a key before she left and said she would be back just after lunch. I didn't know my way aroud yet so I just came to the internet cafe to check emails and stuff, did their dishes and watched the view from their balcony while I waited for Sindy to get back. When Sindy came home we had some lunch and then finally headed into town. It's hard to remember now what we did that first day... Oh yes, we went right to the centre of Berlin and we were going to go up into the needle tower (I can't quite recall the name of it... Fernsehturm or something) but they'd put the prices up to 9.50 euro, Sindy was going to shout me the trip up but it was a bit much. We walked through park areas (they have them all through the city) and along one of the roads, looking at shops and fountains and things, it was pretty cool though it was quite warm. She kept saying I could go into this museum or that museum but for me I don't visit cities to see museums, I'd rather look at the outsides of buildings and such. We wandered aimlessly for a bit and then caught a bus to go a bit further down to the parliament building called the Reichstag. I took some pictures of it but we decided not to go up yet. Just around the corner was Brandenburger Tor, or the Brandenburg Gate, so we went and took pictures of that. Then we went for a walk towards one of the canals and sat watching the boats go past on the canal for a while. We walked a bit longer and check out prices for a boat tour, and then went back towards the Reichstag and caught another bus, which took us on a bit more of a tour. Then we went back to the train station and stopped off at a weirdish supermarket on the way home to get some stuff for tea and headed back. We had some dark german bread, which was okay. :-)
We were pretty tired from the wandering we'd been doing so we crashed pretty early again, maybe 10:30pmish.