Berlin, just germany

I was in Berlin for the weekend with Flo and his friends (a couple), we stayed with his friend's uncle/aunt. It all seemed exciting to be in another new city, a bigger city! As usual I dozed off during the 3 hours drive (lucky I'm not driving or lucky I can't drive), we sat at the back and Louis (their dog) was behind us. The car was Louis's smell, it soon flooded all our other senses. Immune.

Arriving in Berlin is a funny feeling, I'm still in Germany, so it didn't feel like a new place. To me, Braunschweig (where I stay now) and Berlin are not of huge differences. It is still not as busy as London - I'm starting to compare everything with London. It's not as cosmopolitan as London, yet Asians are lingering around more than in those little towns. Finally I overheard a guy speaking English in the train, I was thrilled - someone was there with me (native english speaker).

Sunday was non-shopping day, in fact it is never a shopping trip! Shops are closed on Sunday. The first night ended at 4am after an exhausting night-out (clubbing with live band "The Roots") and late night supper/drink. Saturday was dedicated to long hours of sleep, some hours of shopping mostly in second-hand stores & some funky small shops, and roaming around mostly ending up at christmas markets; we never almost visited a shopping mall. Well the germans should know Berlin best, so probably shopping mall is a bad idea to start off in a city with. Anyway, shopping in europe is almost never cheaper than in London - so why waste the time window shopping! Great, so you know next time when you visit Berlin... unless your wallet is fat.

I realized something from the trip - I'm never sick of walking in the christmas markets! Ha ha.

Oh, yes, I did sightsee as well. We missed the opening hours of the Parliament, at least I was at the door. I was at Brandenburger Tor though... I didn't think much of it, because I seen so much statues in London. But then again, Germany has a very rich history about how it came about as it is today. And I'm surprised I never learnt them in school... or well, maybe it is after I had my history classes! How Germany came together as one from the former EAST Germany and WEST Germany. Goodbye Lenin is a good film to illustrate this!

More to explore...

p/s: Berlin still didn't appeal to me as much.