HIT-LER OR MISS?
Time for some honesty. Neither of us were overly excited about Berlin – a city purely famous from such sadness and devastation, we were close to dodging it like The Biggest Loser would dodge a salad without dressing. That was until it was highly recommended by cousin Charlie – and a massive thank you for widening our ankle-deep shallowness. Berlin has so much more to offer than the doom and gloom of it’s past – something that Berlinians are overtly keen to leave where it belongs; in the past. Berlin surprised us with it’s grungy modernism, a fraction quirky; and at times, totally off the richter. We stayed in a fantastic ‘hostel’ which was in fact a large boat, permanently moored less than 20 metres from the Check Point Charlie of the Berlin Wall. Our fab little pad had it’s own cabin with ensuite and brown water views through the porthole. The boat-el also had a funky little bar on the rooftop which we frequented more than we should have but it was too magnetic to avoid. We hired bikes and peddled around the city and had so much more fun than we expected, checking out trendy little yuppie streets, vintage clothing stores (officially rated as fantastic!) The Ramones Museum and of course some local markets…
WIN:
Seeing Berlin in a different light to the commonly perceived sallow-ness. Lots of fun to be had here!
FAIL:
Did you know that you can actually buy pieces of the Berlin Wall?? Sadists much…
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