October 7th
October 7th, 2006 at 1:33pm
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| Got up today from a decent nights sleep at the fun hotel, the beds were much better than the botels were and the bathroom was modern and not musty. Rocky recons there was something wrong with his bed as it was forcing him to fall out, I recon it was probably more due to his clumsyness.
The included breakfast was a cooked buffet at this hotel, we had some bratwurst meatballs scrambled eggs and I even had some nice cake.
Heading to Berlin as I type this, its only 2 hours from Dresden so we stopped in the city of Dresden to have a bit of a look around. There is a lot of big flash new buildings in the city mixed in with a few historic ones. This is an old East German are so a heap of development looks to have happened in recent years obviously to fill the streets with McDonalds and KFC stores
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We got into Berlin in about an hour and a half, the road was travelling at over 150km for much of it. Being a Saturday there were not many trucks on the road and roads were in fairly good shape, although other than the amazing engineering of tunnels through mountains our freeways are better. We got to our hotel, which wasn’t bad it had just had a lick of paint and some new furniture, two room and a bathroom you can just fit in…(Gary is that is, Rocky needs to breath in a bit)
We walked about 1km to the subway and bought a all day pass for the transport network and headed into Zoo Station which is one of the main stations in the west side of the city. There is an amazing monument to World War II it is a church that has had the guts blown out of it left there as an errie skeleton of bad days in the past. They have built this modern cement and stained glass church around it- it is quite stunning. |
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| We thought the best way to find our way around the city was to join one of the many sit and stare double decker bus tours. It cost 15 euro and was great, we saw most of the sites and got ourself orientated which will make tommorow’s travel a bit easier. The tour lasted about 2 hours so, we then went to the huge new Sony complex for a few beers (even a Fosters at an “Australian” bar…about as Australian as the Eureka is German) and then for a kebab before heading home about 12. |
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