Berlin

We got into Berlin 9am yesterday morning after a 13hour train from Paris. It was pretty hard to sleep but we managed to catch a fair amount of Z's before the train arrived. After a 20 minute walk or so we arrived at the City Hostel, situtated nextdoor to the North Korean embassy, where we were informed that our reservation had been mistakenlz cancelled, however they upgraded us to a 4 person dorm instead for the exact same price so that was a nice suprise!

Almost immediately we headed out to the Holocaust Memorial and visited the Brandenburg Gate before going on a Third Reich tour around Berlin. This was quite an experience, visiting the Reichstag building, the Soviet memorial, the car park where Hitler's bunker once was and Gestapo HQ. It was a very intersting trip wandering around the sights where the Nazi party plotted some of the worst atrocities humanity has witnessed. I will go into more about this trip when I'm back home and have more time to explain.

In the evening we wandered round to the train station and booked our train ticket to Prague on Tuesday, where I have heard it is to rain for the time we are there which has really pissed me off!!!! After that we went to the small doner kebab restraunt, situated opposite where the entrance to Hitler's bunker once stood, a chinese restraunt is now in it's place. It was good to sit, relax with a few beers, and reflect on the events of the day.

Today I went my first run since Glasgow to try and maintain some sort of level of fitness while I'm out here. After that, in order to take a break from the dark tourism we decided to visit Berlin Zoo, which was pretty cool!

Tonight will probably be a quiet one, a stroll to get some dinner and a couple of beers before heading off to Prague tomorrow morning for a few days.

I'll try and get some photos uploaded soon.

-Steven