Berlin: Day 4 / Praha (Prague): Day 1

Woke up at 8 to say bye to Julia - my host for the past few days - and received calls from both Mum, Dad & Flis and Angela! yay!

After packing and dropping my bags back at Hauptbahnhof, I headed to Warschauer Strasse to visit the East Side Gallery, whcih was AWESOME! So much to see, and the Grafitti was really impressive. Some cool stencils too.

Unfortunately, that ended up being all I really did today, as I spent some time in the afternoon looking for the Stasi Museum (unsuccesfully, it looks like it no longer exists), and buying souvenirs. I did get to visit the Berlin Wall Memorial though, which was great, although somewhat more of the same.

And yet another dodgy exchange rate from Pounds to Czech Crowns... ah well, such is life.

However, today was destined to be good: I was meeting with Bec & Nicky from Sydney and we were all headed for Prague!!

I met Bec on the train and we had a great time catching up over a few beers in the restaurant car. We finally arrived in Prague 80mins late and proceeded to get hopelessly lost looking for the hostel! It was totally my fault, however I can't be totally to blame when there are two streets named 'Skolska' and 'Sokolska' within 2kms of each other.

So finally, at around 1am, both exhausted, we arrived at our hostel. It actually ended up being really close to the exit to the Metro, which made it all the more annoying!! So we knocked at the door and were greeted with a Czech couple who knew nothing of our reservation, names, or anything! Only after 10mins of exasperation on all our parts, and Bec asking for 'her Blonde friend' (to which they replied, 'Ah!! Blondino!!!') were we allowed in and found an equally exasperated Nicky.

The hostel (Centrum II) is VERY centrally located, but dodgy as. The shower curtain is, well, covered in a mix of brown and red substances that I don't even want to think about, and the beds squeak. The breakfast is OK, if very bland, but it's safe and the other guests are friendly. Nicky even scored (no pun intended) free accommodation in Naples through her new-found Italian friend Valentino.

We FINALLY got to sleep at 2am, exhausted and kinda over Prague.

PS: For photos of Berlin, click here.