CherryPopper

We crossed into Germany with some ramstein - du hast pumping over the stereo, which was followed up by some painful david hasselhoff!!!

After stopping off at a few rest stops and us getting very conditioned to the “take a piss” song from the Brady Bunch we were in Berlin. Dean (tour manager) took us on a drive around Berlin and told us in great detail about the history of Berlin. Sooooo much has happened here with both world wars, Hitler's rein & the Berlin wall. Not to mention all the stuff that has happened after the fall of the wall.

We got to the hotel only to find out they had screwed up the booking & didn't have enough rooms for us!!! We made the most of the wait while the figured out what to do by cracking open a few bottles of wine the girls had. After some major bitch slapping of the hotel staff by Dean we had rooms but with a catch, not the normal 2 per room but... threesomes all round!!!

A group of us decided to hit the town after dinner and grab a few local beers. We found a big pub with a great beer garden in the middle of a square in east Berlin. (Quick side note... who the hell drinks crappy Fosters here in Germany where their beers rock!!!). In Germany there are laws about beer making and they can't put in preservatives or additives which is said to be the main reason why you get a hang over in the morning. So with that in mind we decided to test that out

After a few beers in the great weather the man we call “random” disappears, this in itself isn't odd since he is random, plus he was going to go visit some German sex show on something (all of us are to scared to ask what shows). All of a sudden half the pub erupts in cheers and we turn around to see why.... yep Random. He has gone and ordered the “world cup special”. This is a beer mug the shape & size of the world cup trophy!!!!. A massive 4L of beer in one glass. He then proceeds to drink it in the same time it took all of us to drink 1L of beer. Can a human stomach even hold 4L of liquid? After he finishes he runs off to his pick of the strip joints on his printed list!!!

We headed back to the train station we came in on only to be told “no trains” & we had to catch a bus. Which after our fun with buses in Amsterdam wasn't a good thing. We found the right bus with the help of a very nice German lady. While on the bus some goths got on & after hearing me and Kath (Aussie chick) talk for a while asks us where we are from as they had a bet. We started chatting to them and just before they got off the freaky goth with a cane, handed Kath a massive card with his name on it and a bunch of German text on it and said “call me”. When we got it translated later it said something about black magic... needless to say she didn't call him.

The next day a few of us missed the walking tour of Berlin (only by 2 mins and it wasn't my fault... ok it may have been but I'm still blaming the beer). We made our way into Berlin to catch up with the group for lunch. We visited a number of famous German sites like the Brandenburg Gate and a heap of other historical places. Berlin just oozzies history.

That night was the “Berlin lightlife tour”... aka Pub crawl. It was great fun and we all let our hair down after a busy day walking Berlin. We ended up at a nightclub where we danced the night away.

I must have been dead tired as i had the key to the room and went in an earlier cab than Cam (room mate) as i just got home and went to sleep. He came in soon after and almost kicked the door down trying to wake me to let him in. In the end he had to get the hotel staff to let him in.

After such a big night i was expecting to be dead... but no the Berlin beer myth of hangover-less beer is “Confirmed”. We woke up late & had 15 mins to get showered, dressed, packed & have breaky and catch the bus before it left without us.

We made it.... just & we are off to Prague.