Thursday, March 27, 2008

Berlin to Prague

Berlin was amazing. The city's architecture is humbling and its history so fresh that is screams at you through every medium; rubble of bombed buildings, memorials, graffiti, and The Wall.

We checked out of our Hostel in Berlin yesterday morning, our bus to Prague wasn't leaving until the next morning at 6:15am. We thought we would just crash on the couches of our hostel common room until around 4am when we needed to catch our train to the bus station. But last night the hostel came alive, it was packed with young people drinking way into the early morning and we realized there was no hope for sleep on the couches. Oliver found an abandoned mattress out in the hall on the 7th floor of the hostel, we curled up on it and tried to sleep until one of the staff members doing rounds awoke us.
We were off.
The bus from Berlin to Prague took 6 hours. We arrived, got off the bus and got straight down to the business of getting lost. we finally made it to our hostel, checked into our room, and ventured out to find food and the correct currency. 16.8 Czech Koruna = about 1 us dollars; i payed for our groceries with a 1,000 Koruna bill (i felt rich).

Our knuckles are cracked from the cold, our noses chapped, our bodies tired and we love it.


lots of love

6 comments:

Hearts in said...

My adorable daughter, It is so fun to hear news from you. Even when the writings are short I can sense the excitement and adventure in your words. I am so happy for you. Much love to you and Oliver.
Mom

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Hearts in said...

Just spent 20 minutes or so looking at picutres of Prague on the internet. Amazing architecture and rivers and lots of red red roofs. So so old.

Thinking of you.
Mom

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OliverMellan said...

cave diving today!!!!

Unknown said...

what an adventure!
Amazing freedom we have to visit so many cultures and places. i'm looking forward to skyping with you when you get back to England.
hugs,