Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Other Cultural Activities

After a long day on the character walk this was definitely needed that and a nice sit down my legs felt like they were about to drop off from all the walking! myself and John make this as out regular on this trip when away from the hotel bar mainly because they gave you free nibbles when you bought a pint and kept them filled up each time you bought another nice touch i must say!



one place that i thought was amazing on this trip was a not very originally named pub simply called the pub i know it sounds bad but in Berlin it sort of made sense it seemed to me like it was mainly for tourist and nice little something that you just don't get back at home in the UK, well it was the most touristy place we went the whole trip. but the special thing about this Pub is that you could pull your own pints in the middle of your table so you didn't have to move off you bum to get anything you could even order food without moving shame they didn't have a toilet incorporated somewhere is this very nice design. not only could you do all this but you war in competition with everyone else in the pub and the rest of the pub chains in Berlin. don't think they had Drink Aware in mind when they came up with thuds idea!



The meeting point for the whole trip pretty much still to this day don't see the point in its existence! its probably important tho something like a communication tower or weather monitor i don't really know.





never seen the point in doing this i have always thought it was so you could leave you mark somewhere and nobody would be able to remove it without going through some serious effort with some bolt cutters but in Berlin they don't seem to remove any graffiti no matter how terrible it is even from really nice building so a simple old school marker pen would probably have done!






nice little shot of some tress probably put in on instagram and add a filter to be cool!




a real fiat original 500 never thought i would see one of these unless i watched the new cars cartoon but i was actually still surprised by how tiny this car actually is i know that the 500 is small anyway but this cars wheels were actually laughable how thin they were looked like a spare wheel.


long day of lectures and character walk talking there tole on us!


John trying his hand on the sowing machine! the amount of times we broke this was actually worrying the very helpful girls in charge of them must have been glad to see the back of us


The hotel pub spent a lot of time in here after finishing lectures and character walk many for refreshment but also for the free wifi that you could only seem to get in the pub strange that!


Opening party for Berlin's Pictoplasma festival was a interesting journey trying to get there took a few trips to different platforms on the underground can't remember its name something like ubarn i don't know something german sounding, interesting little feature to this place was all the tables were numbered and had there own telephone that you could use to ring any other table by dialling there number thought i was a funny little touch to help people get talking.


the majority of graffiti in berlin was mainly horrible pieces crudely done or tags but amongst all the crap was some really nice art work that had clearly taken some time like this one right next to one of the exhibitions on the character walk i would like to say people had been focusing more on this piece of art more than the one inside the container but that is the feeling i got but i guess thats art really some people just don't get it and it was one of the more strange ones i had seen.  


Mcdonalds in Berlin have a lot of other things in the menu that we just aren't getting over here and i don't see why! because of this myself and John bought the McRib and the Prawns. and in true german efficiency i tidied my tray how i felt a true german would have who either worked for Audi or something like that! the same can't be said for john



Some things in Berlin are best left in Berlin this was simply disgusting!


John's monster after being brought back to life after someone had crudely added some extra pieces to him!

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