Day 43 - Prague to Berlin

We got up at 7:30 and packed quickly, said goodbye to everyone, and met Kim and Meg downstairs in the common room. They're heading to Berlin too, so we thought we'd ride together. They already had tickets and since our Eurail passes don't cover the Czech Republic we had to get tickets so we went ahead and planned to meet them on the train.

Me and Rob just made it onto the train on time and figured the girls had been too slow and missed it but we ended up finding them a couple cards down and helped them move their stuff down to our compartment. The train ride was okay, again with some great fall colours and scenery. Rob and Kim slept most of the way, so i took out my mini-speakers and me and Meg rocked out to some good old country music and chatted. They're both studying in London so I'll maybe hang out with them abit when i'm in London at the end of my trip.

When we got to Berlin we said bye to the girls since they were heading to one hostel and we'd booked another one. Then me and Rob tried to figure out how to get to our hostel, the City Stay Hostel.

We failed.

We couldn't even find an information booth anywhere. We literally wandered for over an hour with no clue where we were going adn even when we found a city map we still couldn't figure out where the hell we were supposed to be. We ended up making a huge loop and then finally found an information point right back where we'd first started. An hour of our lives we'll never ever get back. Then when we did get instructions, Rob got u s onto a train going in the wrong direction. The joys of travelling. I was so happy when we finally got to our hostel and go to take our packs off.

The City Stay is a very very nice place and very central. We're right across the street from the huge, Swedish designed TV tower and not far from Checkpoint Charlie, the famour border crossing between East and West Berlin. Our hostel is actually in East Berlin, so 18 years ago we would've been in the heart of communist Berlin before the Wall came down in 1989. The square where Hitler had one of his famous Nazi rallies is about 3 blocks away. Very crazy to be in the middle of all this history.

We screwed around for awhile and walked around the neighborhood abit on our owns. We ran into James, the guy from Tazmania again and hung out with him for awhile then we hit a steak house around the corner for dinner, then to bed early.

Pretty slow day....nice for once.