What the hell is metablogging?

Right so I'm sitting here in Prague with a decent keyboard, well not exactly decent but at least the keys are all in the right place. But enough about prague, I'll get back to it later when I'm actually there. Well not actually there as I'm about to leave... shuttup. Back to Berlin. I do believe that's where I left off.

Now to say Berlin was fun would be inacurate. It was painful, not to say that I didn't enjoy myself but goddamn, my feet, soooo much pain. I swear with all the walking we did we could have circumnavigated the city. It was madness. But damn was there some cool stuff to see. First of which was Ampleman.

Now, you may ask, what is Ampleman? And shame on you for not knowing. He is the sign of Berlin. He is the sign of the end of communisim, a sign of the unification of Germany, the sign that tells you whether you can cross the street... No seriously. He's the little green and red man for pedestrian crossings in Germany. Well, east Germany to be more presice. But he is slowly taking over lights in the west as well. Now, I'm assuming that most of you are very confised at the moment so let me explain.

Ampleman is not the normal looking green and red man on the lights. He is a slightly pudgy man wearing a hat. He has character. When he is green he looks as though he is really happy to be crossing the street. Shown in his walking pose. When he is red, he has his arms out to warn you not to cross. Now why am I telling you about a crossing light man? Because Ampleman is awesome. Seriously. There are Ampleman stores and restaurants in Germany. That's how much they love this little guy. Buy anyway, enough about the awesomeness of Ampleman, onto what I did during the day.

So the day started with an early morning breakfast. Note to self, do not touch cereal in German hostels. The milk can be hazzardous to your health. Stick to bread with apricott jam. It's a lot safer. Anyway, after navigating breakfast it was time to head over to our walking tour of Berlin. For those of you who know me then you know that walking and myself don't really get along that well. I have one thing to say to that. Screw you guys, Ima goin' walking. I walked more in that morning walk than most of you have done in like a month. Not to mention the walking I did after it. But more on that later.

Our tour guide was awesome. He was actually funny and managed to make the tour entertaining by telling us various stories about the various places that we visited. We saw a number of things such as the holocaust monument dedicated to all the Jewish people that were killed during world war 2, the monumnet to the books that were burned for the war as well as the famous check point charlie. All in all it was a brilliant tour. After that we got to do some exploring of our own. So where do Lee-Anne and I decide to go? Topology of Torture... naturally.

The display is currently being reconstructed but they still have lots of displays up giving you information on the SS as well as the Nazi's in general. It shows various key members from the Nazi party as well as various people that were tortured for speaking out against the Nazis. Pretty gruesome stuff, kind of makes you wonder how people could do things like that... and why we would want to go look at it... anyway...

From there was some more walking to this AWESOME cathedral with a massive dome and spires etc. You even got to go to the very top where you can see out over most of Berlin. If you are ever in Berlin then check it out. It's called the Beliner Dom, I think. It's hard to miss. But you must check it out, the stuff in there is great. Kind of makes you look at the stuff people build these days and go, "sure its nice but damn it has nothing on those old buildings."

Well much walking later we managed to visit one or two more monument type things before meeting up with some of the other memebers of the group to head for dinner. Now that was fun. Joe's Beerhall was where we headed... too bad it wasn't actually a beerhall. Slight fail there. But, being the adventuresome person I am when it comes to food, *cof*, I decided to have some local cuisine. Bratwurst (spelling?) and mash. Damn that was nice. Although I would have been a lot happier without any sourkraut on my plate. Yeeeaaarrrgghh. That stuff can stay the hell away. Anyway, after some good food we were off walking again. This time with 2 others, Daniel and Brendan. Now Daniel has actually been mentioned before, he being New Guy. This time we just remembered his name, Brendan shall be known as other guy in case I forget his name again and am feeling too lazy to check back to this post.

Needless to say we spent a fair amount of time walking to our next stop, the Reichstag (spelling? damn german words) also known as the seat of parilament in Germany. Needless to say the queue was way too long and we weren't going to get in, but New Guy and Other Guy decided to try any way (they didn't get in. They were the last ones in the line when they hit cut off... I should feel bad about finding that funny shouldn't I?).

So we carried on walking... to the next monument... and I cannot explain to you just how sore our feet were. I'm pretty sure mine were worse as they had been hurting already but damn, she just kept moaning about her feet. Oh well. For those of you, who I'm pretty sure will be numerous, who think that this was over reacting, allow me to put it to you like this. We started walking at about 9am. We had like 2 half hour breaks, once for lunch and one to giv our feet a rest, as well as an hour break for dinner. Other than that, we were walking until 11pm. For those of you who suck at maths, thats... a lot of wlaking. Find someone else to do the maths for you. Anyway, that was big day in Berlin. I'd type more now but this machine is about to log me off, whoops

Score:
Me: 2
Her: 2
New Guy: 2