My last night in Berlin before flying home, so sadly this will be my last entry... unless something eventful happens tonight.

 

One of the Irish guys in Ios talked about the "Ios Cough". And we all seem to have caught it... only exacerbated via the Bears crash-and-burn style of partying, serving only to pass on mutated versions of his illnesses. Sleeping in the same rooms and sometimes the same bed is not the healthiest way to travel. So the Ios cough has turned into the Berlin cough and saw the Kingdom laying low for a couple of days.

 

After 1 day of recuperation doing nothing, we did the Berlin tour courtesy of Jenny. We were supposed to hook up with the Dog as well, but he pub crawled the night before and we missed him. The tour consisted of train rides, Checkpoint Charlie, more train rides, East Side Gallery (Berlin Wall) and more train rides. I've always thought the only way to truly experience a different city is to jump on their public transport system... and it is efficient as you would expect it to be.

 

At this stage we had nowhere to watch the Australia vs Croatia game and the most popular venues were showing Brazil vs Japan instead (boo!). We ended up at Popkick with a Big Day Out type set-up... there were about 50 other Aussies there as well going nuts. Oi, oi, oi!

 

Hopefully you have enjoyed reading my blog... it may not have made much sense at times, but you could attribute that to my holiday frame of mind. And it was written with different audiences in mind, so some of the references were a little cryptic...

 

I'm sure I will share some of the more interesting events that have  happened with you when I get back. And plenty of photos and videos as well!