Big Adventures, Little World

Feeling refreshed after the decent night’s sleep we made our way to Dresden in Germany, which is a town that was heavily bombed during World War II for no real reason, but has often tried to be justified by the British and United States, although researchers and historians are against the justifications. We went for a walking tour with Hottie as it rained, while Irish Mark and Rainbow stayed back to prepare our lunch. There are some remarkable buildings throughout the city, and a lot of them still have their charred outsides from the fire bombs that were used and ravaged the city during the war. Some of the buildings that were destroyed have even been rebuilt using the charred stones from the old building to still look like the other buildings in the city as well as a reminder of what happened during the war. A very cool and beautiful city that it would have been nice to spend some more time in, but being on such a tight schedule that we were we unfortunately couldn’t. Back on the bus and on our way to Berlin we went.

We arrived in Berlin and went straight on to our driving tour through the city, where we went along the Berlin Wall, the parts of it that were still standing, and saw all the art that had been painted along them in which is now an outdoor art gallery. Some of them have been there for a long time, but most are changed every so often with new paintings from new artists, and a lot of them represent peace and events that happened during the time when the wall was still standing or when it was coming down. We continued on through the city and saw some other amazing sites including the Reichstag, the Victory Monument, Checkpoint Charlie and the Brandenburg Gate which are all full of so much history from World War II and the division of East & West Germany, which we would find out the next day when we were going on  the Third Reich walking tour.

Once we had finished the driving tour, it was on to our hostel. Everyone was so excited to not have to worry about setting up and packing up the tents. The hostel was amazing and was more like a hotel. There was a pool in the basement, a restaurant, a bar, a big courtyard and rabbits running around. We had dinner in the restaurant and sat back with a few drinks before I had to get some washing done, where I had to wait for the washing machines and dryers, before finally getting to bed about 3AM.