On this special day of mine I have decided to give you all a brief update. First some random thoughts. #1 - Why why oh why did I wish for warmer weather. Geez Emily. The other day in Heidelberg it was 38 degrees out. #2 - Jess you should go out and read `dont sleep with your drummer´. It is hilarious (plus thank you for the very nice birthday note on your blog). #3 - Took my camera in to get fixed and he said he had to send it away and then it would be 4 weeks. Right... So either my pictures are going to be blurry or have black dots over them or not turn out or be perfectly fine. We shall see.
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Prague, Czech - Basically the city was lovely and the weather was crap and I was in a moody mood. Ha ha. Pretty much sums it up. I will have to visit it again sometime. It was lovely.
Berlin, Germany - Went and stayed with my sisters old exchange student. She worked most of the time but that gave me lots of time to see the city. Which I loved! Took a walking tour of the city which was very worthwhile. The guide was so enthusiastic and told some really great stories. Some of the highlights include Brandenburg Tor (which has a giant soccer ball in front of it at the moment), Reichstag (the parliament), and of course the wall. Which was really smaller than I thought it would be. But I guess the scarey part about the wall was not the actual wall itself but the death strip around it. Saw the Jewish holocaust monument which is basically a huge block filled with concrete rectangles of different sizes. Pretty churches too of course. Eva took me out of a fancy dinner one night and then out to this really cool club another night that had a view of the whole city. Hard to hang out in a club with a bunch of German people though who dont speak a lot of english. It was fun nontheless. Oh I saw the 'zoo station'. Woot!
Ack this computer has a very annoying delay and I keep messing up. Ack!
Copenhange, Denmark - Well I chose the wrong time to come her. Sunday I arrived and most things were closed due to it being a Sunday. Turns out the next day was a holiday. Ha ha. What I did love about the city though was the fact that everyone rides bikes and I mean everyone. Its great. They have bike lanes in places that are wider than the car lanes. Plus they all have really cute baskets on their bikes. Im going to get one. The city was a very nice one to walk around. Took the walking guide that was suggested in my guide book and it turned out to be pretty good. Also stumbled upon a random photography exhibit in the streets outside the national theatre. Hans Christian Andersons house was very small and only had a tiny plaque on it. The Little mermaid statue is very little, but I had been warned not to expect much so it was ok. Oh and also about bikes, they have free city bikes that you can just pick up and ride around the city. How wonderful is that! Heard a really great lightning storm and got scolded by a random Ukranian woman about the eating of my white pasta and the fact I had a sunburn. Spent my last day here going over to Sweden. Guess what - it was a holiday over there the day I chose to go! Ferry ride was pretty and on the way I got to see Hamlet's castle.
Shite this keyboard is pissing me off. Its taking me like 15 times longer to write than I normally would take.
Aachen, Germany - Stayed with a random connection whom I had never met before but she turned out to be very nice. Aachen is a cute German city where my sister lived for a few months. It has the most beautiful cathedral in it (and at this point i was getting sick of them). Also there are random painted statues of horses throughout the city and some very smelly water that comes out of a spring that is supposed to be good for you. Wanda took me around the town and the next day drove me (and her sisters and boyfriend - what a cramped car) out to the place where the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany all meet. So I stood in all three countries at once and then ate some soft ice cream. We went out for beer both nights I was here so that was fun. I also went to the chocolate museum during the day trip to Cologne and got to see how it was made. Mmmm. Cologne was a very nice city too - but right now everywhere in Germany is nuts due to soccer. Tried to see Frankfurt for a day but it sucked. In my opinion.
Ok I really need to end this soon - time almost up!
Heidelberg, Germany - Stayed with zee German there, my friend Corinna who I lived with in Edinburgh. It was great to see her, and I had such a good time just hanging out with her. It was nice to be with someone I know pretty well, instead of strangers. We just sat and hung out in her parents cold house and chatted most of the time. They had a really nice big bbq the one night so that was yummy. She lives in a cute little town outside the city - which is exactly the kind of place I want to live when I am older. I just need to find it in Canadian form. Visited Heidelberg for the day and saw the castle. I took a trip one day to the huge gardens in a town I cant remember at the moment then spent the afternoon in a town called Speyer. Its getting too hot to do as much as I was doing before though.
That brings me to now, Munich Germany. And I thought soccer fans were crazy before. Ha ha. I went out to Neushwanstein (spelling all wrong) for the day yesterday and saw the Disney castle and lovely scenery and waterfalls and lakes around it. It was a great day. Also they surf here in the English Garden. Its a tiny little river in the park and it just happens to have one wave so people line up and take turns. Its funny.
Im sweating to death so Im going to go figure out how the heck to get to this place Im supposed to stay tonight. Its like hickville Germany apparently. Thanks for tuning in...
