Ich bin ein Berliner

Hi everyone.
I hope you are well!!!
I am in Berlin and wish I was here for much longer it is such a great city!! So full of history and culture. I have met some really nice people at the hostel and on the bus and have hung out with them for the last couple of days. One of them, in fact, is a guy from Melbourne, he lives near Eltham and went to Eltham College (which is not too far from Warranwood). He has just finished high school and is taking a year off to travel through Europe for a year before going back to study Science at Melbourne Uni....... but check this out he is doing a Physics major with Engineering electives!! Sound familiar? How bizzare to randomly meet someone from just around the corner who is doing the same course as me at a petrol station in Holland on the way to Berlin!! I thought that was great!
I went to the Checkpoint Charlie museum which houses some of the contraptions that people used to get over or under the Berlin Wall. Things like makshift flying machines or cars with secret compartments.
We also went on a massive walking tour of Berlin for 4 hours yesterday in the hot hot weather. My brain is so full of politics!
We also hung out last night with the real Germans in a big beer garden, it was such a great night for sitting out all night.
gtg love Acushla.

Bruges - Belgium

Hi all,
I'm in Belgium now eating chocolate and drinking beer. They have raspberry beer here - how strange!!
Went for a big bike ride today (40 k's) to a small town then to the beach by the North Sea. It was really nice riding by the channel with the path lined with trees...... but I am sooo sore now...... I don't want to sit on a bike again (well not for a while anyway).
Bus About is really good - you get to meet some really great people and everyone's so friendly.
I'm off to Amsterdam tomorrow which should be good - catching up with all the Dutch rellies.
Love ya lots, Acushla