Road Trip!

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Well, Its been about two weeks, but I finally have a few minutes to do a little blog about Berlin. We rented our car in Bratislava early Saturday morning. And we were off for a long dive to Berlin. As you can see from the map we did not take the most direct route to Berlin. The reason for that is that a car rented in Bratislava can not be driven through the Czech Republic. Don't ask me... So through across Austria and into Germany we went. I did most of the driving, but Alex also drove some of the way. We rolled into Berlin around 7 that evening. After checking into our hostel, we went out for a little night exploration. And saw a few sights. We were all pretty tired so we called it an early night.

The next day we hit up a free tour in the morning that met up near the Brandenburg Gate. (see pic). The tour lasted four hours and we hit a lot of the major sights in Berlin. Good deal for free. We spent the rest of the day wondering around Berlin on our own. Its an amazing city, but it was really freaking cold while we were there.

The next day the real festivities began. It was the big celebration for the wall coming down. We spent our morning and afternoon wandering around, seeing the festivities for the wall. The real show did not begin until about 8. When they began having speeches. The German chancellor spoke, along with Hillary Clinton, Gordon Brown, Dmitry Medvedev, and Nicolas Sarkozy. There was also a performance by Bon Jovi... I know I know, Bon Jovi. Bet your super jealous. Then finally the Dominoes came down. Fireworks. We caught the ubahn back to where we parked our car and hit the road about 10PM. After a long night on the road we pulled up to Haus Erasmus in Vienna around 6AM. Tired. we went to bed.