Wednesday, June 3, 2009

amsterdam and berlin

we got into berlin yesterday after spending 3 nights in amsterdam. Amsterdam is a genuinely great place to visit even without the plethora of coffeeshops and prostitutes on window display. we stayed at the best hostel yet (flying pig central)...had chill rooms, smoke rooms, and a lot of cool people. some bathrooms were mixed though, so i had to take showers in the women's bathroom. I would recommend everyone visit this place at least once.
Berlin is obviously a little more rough, but has a good amount of historical stuff to see. the grafitti on every building and the amount of trash make it apparent that this place is still in some way recovering. our hostel is full of high school kids it seems, and everyone is into the latest and greatest clubbing and hip hop streetwear. its pretty different. the language barrier is much more obvious here as well. we were planning on doing the pub crawl, but either we are bad with directions or the germans are not punctual. so jeff and i are off to try to find some sort of party or casino.

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