Once again, thank you all for reading, I appreciate the support! So jumping right into things, this past Saturday I got a call from a friend in the medicine program and he said "hey man you want to go to Berlin in 45 minutes", he didn't have to ask me twice. I hopped on board with the idea pretty quick so I threw a clean shirt, my camera and a bottle of water in my backpack and got in a sketchy car driving to Berlin. The guys that joined me we two brothers from Israel- Shay and Mike Ritter, two super cool dudes. So it was us three and another random guy from Poznan in the car going to Berlin. The drive was really long because of construction, we left Poznan at ~3 on Saturday afternoon and didn't get in until about 7pm. The random guy in the car with us ended up being from Berlin and he told us about a couple cool spots to check out while we were visiting. Oh and while still on the topic of the drive to Berlin, we got on the autobahn (we think). For those that don't know the autobahn is a speed limitless highway, meaning you can drive as fast as you want without being ticketed by police. Our sketchy little SUV was going ~185km/h in little narrow passing lanes, pretty scary but definitely cool.
So we landed in Berlin and because it was a spur of the moment decision, we had no time to reserve a hotel or place to stay. So we brainstormed and started walking downtown Berlin and popping into every hotel/ hostel we could find. Every place was booked solid. Apparently (little did we know) there was the worlds biggest erotic/porn/sex exhibit being held in Berlin for the weekend. This is why it was so hard to find a place to stay.
Anyway after numerous rejections from hotels we found a place online so i went ahead and booked it. We called a taxi to take us to the location. Once we got there, the owner of this place comes out and starts saying that he has no place for us to stay and that the internet site we booked it on was wrong, blah blah blah. So again, we were shit out of luck. BUT, heres the icing on the cake, this place we toolk the taxi to just conveniently happened to be the gay district in Berlin. As we were walking around this place there were assless chaps shops, dominatrix, S&M stuff, you name it. I was being eyed by several dudes (light on their loafer dudes), very uncomfortable. Despite this hilarity that ensued some good did come out of it. We stopped into "Toms Gay Hostel" and Tom was at the desk in his rainbow colored, v-neck shirt and asked me how he could help me (with a lisp).......Anyway I told him we were looking for a place to stay and he reffered us to a place in the heart of downtown Berlin called A&O Hostel which he called himself and reserved 3 beds for us! Really nice guy........
We show up to this A&O hostel we pay the lady and head up to our room. Now, I have never been to a hostel before so i have no idea what to expect. We go up the stairs and get to our room. We open the door and the worst smell of my young life was taken into my nasal cavities. There were like 6 old dudes/ chicks already in the room sleeping, all the beds are bunk beds and its only 10pm at this point. The smell was honest to god unbearable, it smelled like the title of this blog, one-thousand dead bodies. We threw our bags in the room and left promptly. As soon as we were out of the room we all started gagging and wish we were back in the homosexual district........
Anyway we came down from the horrid room, had an official German dinner, beers etc. We notice a hotel, a nice hotel so we decided to stop in for shits and giggles to see if they had a room. Sure enough they did, because it was 11:30 at this point I bargained with the guy (Just like my father would) and talked him down to a much better rate for the night. We grabbed our stuff from the hostel room (I refused to go back in so I made the brothers go...I couldn't do it) and moved it into the new, nice, good smelling hotel. We then went back out on the town, had more beers and called it a night.
The next day we went to the Berlin zoo (one of the best in the world), went sightseeing and saw the Berlin wall, checkpoint charlie, historic points, some of the nicest cars I have ever seen and had more beers. We got back to Poznan at 11:30pm on Sunday. It was a great weekend and Berlin is really an awesome city. I hope to go again shortly, this time being more prepared.
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| The Berlin Wall |
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| Checkpoint Charlie |
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| 300,000 Dollar Bently |
Next week I'm blogging about being knighted by the president of the university here in Poznan (This happened today) so stay tuned for that. Hope you enjoyed the events that ensued in this blog and don't forget to subscribe to at the top of the page via email. Once again, shout out to my family, much love sent your way.
Lastly, Shout out to my friend Dan Collins who is getting married this coming weekend. All the best to you and Christy and I wish I could be there! Have a great time my man.
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone back home! Bye.
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