The beginning

BANG BANG BERLIN!

After the dam, we hired a car, actually not just any car, a merc; why not cruise along the german autobahns in style! It was quite a rush flying along the roads at 200km per hour with hurls driving! My only hairy moments were when he wanted to have a dart- the compromise was that he'd slow to 140 for this...not really much of a compromise tho! We stopped off in hamburg for 2 nights which was good to recharge our battery's before hurls birthday festival in berlin. Hamburg was actualy quite a pituresque city, much more than I had expected. Then onto Berlin!

Berlin, where do i start!? What an awesome joint! I'll definitely be heading back there at some stage as the week there was right up there with the best of my trip. Big call but it was unbelievable! Once again we did the free walking tour which was more like a performance from this chick who put on the best history show i've ever seen. Berlin has so much recent history so it really was fantastic to see the places where many events took place. I'm no history nerd but it really was brilliant. Even the boys agreed!

After getting our history lesson out of the way it was time for us to get back down to the business of doing what we do best- destroying ourselves...
We landed in a super hostel which was always chockers full of people and the best part was it ran a 2hr happy hour between 5 and 7 everyday which was ample time to get everyone in the mood! So the first night we just stayed at the hostel bar and ran riot there as the next day was hurls big day so we wanted to keep a few petrol tickets...

Hurls birthday (friday) started before midday when we met 3 crazy irish girls who were already on the gas and basically didn't stop until monday... I loved a quote from one of the girls about the irish "we're not alcoholics, we just don't stop drinking!" Couldn't have said it any better myself. The fri night we hit up another pub crawl and this time grega and I managed to make it through the whole night and then some! We went to some awesome bars and clubs which berlin is famous for and ended up at 7 in the morning at an underground club which can only be described as Berlins revolver! happy days! haha
Another highlight was being knocked back from a club because we weren't dressed fetish enough, only in berlin!

The next day I was in a bad bad way and spent a few hours with my head in a basin due to a dodgy hot dog van outside one of the clubs but thankfully came good for the satdy night. It was only hurls, 2 of the irish and another random aussie who were up for hittin the town and what a move it was! We went to this club called 'weekend' which was set on two levels at the top of a building with windows right around overlooking berlin, it really was the best! And the joint was going off! We met a heap of cool people and had an absolute ball! And as an added bonus I actually remembered the whole night for a change!

Berlin is also where I finally ran out of money and therefore it was time for a reality check and head to either london or dublin to set up shop and start earning some much needed coin! I was definitely leaning towards london purely for the reason that I knew more people there and it was looking like i'd be able to get accommodation and work quicker but then along came the crazy irish and it didn't take long for them to convince me to head to dublin and by the tuesday hurls and I were being put up by one the of the irish girls and her swedish housemate. I'll write a dublin update very soon now that I'm set up pretty well and have some more time on my hands.Hope you are all well and my number is +353 85 285 4030

cheers, bren/chick