Yesterday marked the exact middle of my trip and so far in actually really please with how everything is going. Sure the Germans keep taking tips from the change they never give me back and sure Dresden smelt like a nice waft of something I left in Renata's grandmothers toilet for almost 5 days, but I'm actually happy with how things are going. I could do with some more sleep but I'll do that eventually.
For breakfast the hostel recommended the restaurant downstairs for €6.50 and you get a "large plate" with any drink. I got offered tea or coffee (I would have liked orange juice but that's cool) and I wasn't expecting cheese, ham, egg and bread to be a large breakfast. I just ate the fruit when I couldn't stomach the ham anymore. The bread was great though but it's not to me. All I want is a croissant, fruit and yoghurt and I'm good to go. Maybe I'll just buy that in the mornings.
I got back to the hostel and people were floating about and still asleep at 10am so I just took off and went into Berlin Andreaplatz. As soon as I got off the underground I saw the TV tower. West Berlin's answer to looking stronger than East. Also I saw a massive line out the front to get in from the front door. Screw that. I just walked in and saw the ticket machine inside was a lot emptier so I got my ticket in 2 minutes compared to the idiots in the sun for a lot longer than that! The problem is that there are a lot of people waning to get through. So because of that the wait I've got is 1 hour and 15 minutes. So I went for a walk and saw a few interesting buildings. I overheard a guy giving friends a tour in English too. Also there are gypsies here and lucky Paris prepared me for it. However once I got back to the TV tower, those buying tickets from 1pm will need to wait 2 and a half hours. Insanity.
I got McDonald's after the tower because I got out by 2.30 and I didn't want a full meal so I got a McRib. Loving life pretty much. As I was eating though there was a gypsy who walked in and gave me a note asking for money. The hell? I just threw it back at him.
After I walked down to Karl Marx Allee to see the architecture and it was pretty amazing but a bee got stuck to my tshirt. It wouldn't come off as I spent about 5 minutes trying to push it when a guy looked at me and said to just flick it away. So I did. Seriously I was worried it'd come back and sting me.
I continued to walk around the area and just went to churches and different buildings. I overheard your guides all throughout so that's pretty awesome. In my photos I got some of a bar that is on wheels and the people peddle it while drinking. It was actually a funny sight.
Later on at 5.30, after 6 hours in the city I went back to the hostel and had a nap. Not that it helped but just chilled and had dinner with the guys here and we went out later on near by.
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