Berlin....

Luckily our hostel was really easy to get to from the station, because the U-bahn and S-bahn system can be really confusing if you arent used to it...

The first thing I noticed about Berlin was that everything is so big there it is crazy...the streets are really wide and they are never really busy unlike Amsterdam.

There is so much to do there and loads to see...there is so much history. We went up the Reichstag on the first day, it is free and definatley worth waiting in the que for, you can walk all the way to the top and get a brilliant view of the city. then in the afternoon we went to the Pergamon museum, it was 8 euro, but 4 for students so it worked out pretty cheap - you get a audio guide which tells you all about the different exhibitions.

We went on the free tour - again - it is also pretty long but it is really really interesting...there is so much history within the city so they dont really have to pad it out with boring things to fill the time. Definatley worth the painful feet...

We went to the Jewish museum, which was really interesting, we completley lost track of time and lost our friends that we went in with...whoops.

The Hamburger Bahnhof is a modern and contemporary art gallery, a bit like the Tate, it has loads of Andy Warhol and it is massive so there is loads to look at, it is free on Thursdays between 2 and 6, but otherwise it is 8 Euro, 4 for students.

We were there for the big Germany - Turkey football match, there is a large Turkish population in Berlin around our hostel so we were sat on the street watching the match on big screen surrounded by locals and tourists, it was loads of fun. Germany won, but the Turkish were really happy too so it was a really good atmosphere all night.

We went out to a really good bar called Cafe Zappata on Oranienburger Strabe, which has loads of other good bars on and around it....we met some really fun people there and it is a really cool place. It is an old squat, but still has a gallery above it...there is the indoor bar and then a few bars outside for the summer - we definatley recommend it for everyone - a really good night out.

All in all we love Berlin...off to Prague next :D