Hellooo! You all good? I am, trying to find
time to write a bit on my lovely pink platform! Christmas’ madness is coming
and with that, all the dinners and parties and crazy English celebrations that
seem endless. I love it obvs. Still haven’t changed my ringtone to All I want for Christmas is you though…
That said, here are some snaps of my
short-but-crazy Berlin experience. I was dyiiiing to go as everyone said it was
this AMAZING thing. Well, as some of you already heard, I didn’t find it that super
awesome bucket list type of thing. To be noted:
- I was
only there for a weekend, meaning I had one full day to visit the main
attractions;
- It was a
girls weekend, just 2 of us, not big fans of techno clubs;
- We were based
on the East side as it’s meant to be the good and fun one but then again they
say that about East London and that’s just not true;
- It was 1
degree for most of the time… Nothing to add to that.
Now, my comments:
- The
whole city was under building work. Maybe they have a specific time of the year
when they start all the ‘refurbishing’ – is it for Christmas?!... Otherwise it’s
just weird, complemented by random pipes in the middle of the roads that were
only cool because they were pink;
- No one
seems to know anything about the city. “Where
can we find some places to shop?”, Hmm there’s nothing just a shopping
centre; “Where can we go get a drink
before going out in East?”, Hmm we don’t have bars, or coffees, or pubs –
you just go mental with pills and alcohol to the prisons clubs, I
presume?!;
- The Berlin
Wall is tiny, thinner than a Victoria Secret model and probably not taller than
the tallest guy on Guiness;
- The centre
of East, Alexanderplatz (where we
were staying) is like Colombo in the middle of 2a Circular. For the English
people, it’s like 2 huge shopping centres in the middle of a motorway –
gigantic buildings, with super large roads with like 5 lanes each way! Ines and
I got there at 1am Friday and it was so deserted we thought we were in the
furthest place possible from the centre.
- Lastly, as
my friend Lightly said, it’s a city built on techno. Which sucks for someone
that hates techno music. And techno people and clothes. But I guess I should
have known that.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Don’t go Tresor if you don’t like techno and prison cells in general. Something
I would like to have known beforehand.
Other than the above, we did have a good time. Loads
of gossip, ate really well – the restaurants are amazing as they have all sorts
of food in each place: Italian, tapas, sandwiches, fish, meat, all of it! And,
more importantly, cocktails! Yoohoo! Met some cool people in an awesome shop I
still need to advertise on the blog, lots of randoms on the tube (standard
tourist!), more randoms outside the craziest club ever… All the perks of a girls
city break really.
Enough with the talking, enjoy some photos! x
Berlin – I will come back, for a longer and
maybe a bit more researched experience. If anyone is living in Berlin please
let me know – I’m getting lazy and only visiting cities where I have wise friends
to tell me where to go!
