Bad Time Berlin

Grumpy Cat at the Holocaust Memorial

Next stop on our journey was Berlin and sadly, things went down the toilet (toilette?) as soon as we arrived. We had had nothing but sunny perfect weather up to this point so we weren't prepared for the moment we got off the plane for it to be rainy and cold (we got spoiled, I know). On top of that our Airbnb host who had previously agreed to leave the keys for us at the mailbox had changed his mind and said he would meet up with us late in the afternoon to give us the keys. We got to Germany around 10am so that meant we were stranded out in the rain lugging around our suitcases for 4 hours. In those 4 hours Berlin did not make a good impression on us. Visually, it was not aesthetically pleasing; all of the buildings were ugly and run-down looking and everything was covered in graffiti. There were no cute shops anywhere and the people were not friendly. We walked around for ages trying to find something to eat until we happened across a bakery. I had a Danish (which was pretty delicious) and a cappuccino that burned the bejesus out of my tongue >_______<



Woodland Fairy

So anyway, 4 hours go by and we met up with out host. We thought he'd just do a quick hand over of the keys and be outta there. WRONG. This guy went on and on and ON for an HOUR. He went on this whole shpeal about all of the things to see in Berlin but immediately after telling us about a place he'd say, "But I wouldn't recommend it." This guy was the WORST. One thousand hours later he finally left and I went to use the bathroom and noticed that the lights didn't work in the bathroom. Awesome. Next we noticed that he'd only left us one blanket and zero sheets. Fantastic. On top of that the room was filthy and had giant dust bunnies and spiders. Ew. I managed to take a little nap despite all of these grievances. When I woke up we decided to get out for a little bit and maybe check out the nightlife. We went to this god-awful hipster bar for like a hour before bailing (a girl spilt her drink all over Melissa). After that we wandered around a little bit and ended up getting hecka lost. Nothing like being lost in a foreign city in the rain at 10pm. Ugh...We eventually found a train that would take us back to our flat and since we were 100% done by that point we didn't buy a ticket. Luckily, no one asked nor cared.



Amadeus and Me

The next day was an improvement from the first but it still wasn't great. Our day started off with us being kicked off the U-baun. Since no one had checked our ticket the night before we thought we could get away with buying a reduced fair student ticket. We were almost to our stop when two dudes started making the rounds and checking tickets. He looked at ours and we thought we'd gotten away with it until he stops and turns back. He grabs the other guy with him and they start yelling at us about having an "illegal ticket" and escorted us off the train. We were so humiliated/terrified. There's nothing like two angry Germans first thing in the morning. They made us show them ID then lectured us how the tickets we had were for children only (in our defense all of the info on the tickets was in German so would have had no way of knowing that). They demanded we buy new tickets so we did. However, as soon as we got new tickets they acted like NOTHING HAD HAPPENED. Like night and day. It was totally weird. Right as we got back onto the train an entire group of Asian tourists got kicked off too and they had no tickets so we didn't envy them (they all looked so scared, poor babies).

We hadn't had any plans to go to the Holocaust Memorial since that time in history makes us super sad town but it was right there when we got off the train so we took a quick look. To be honest, I didn't care for the design at all. It was kind of an eyesore and kids were running through it and jumping all over it so we crossed the street and walked through the park. The park was really pretty and we got to see some cute doggies. There was a monument of Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn in the park too so we took some cute selfies. Once the park ended we thought it would be nice to walk along the river and follow it to the palace. It was a lovely walk but it went on for ages and we never did make it to the palace since we got too hungry and had to search for food instead. Finding food was no easy task, I might add. Luckily, we stumbled upon a university and had lunch in their cafeteria for super cheap. My sandwich was pretty blah but at least we ate. Shortly after lunch it started to rain really hard so we got back on the U-baun and headed back into the city center. There was a mall there so we went inside for a bit. I was surprised by how gross all of the clothes were. There wasn't anything I wanted to buy (and I usually can always find something). Just a huge let down all around.



Bad Time Berlin Babes

We headed back to the flat pretty early and stopped at a Lidl grocery store for dinner stuff. I got a tiramisu for 1.50 euros and it was surprisingly good. Melissa made the best dinner of all time too. We had macaroni with cherry tomatoes, fresh basil, mushrooms and goat cheese and bread. I had three helpings if you can believe it. Best meal of the trip by far.

So yeah, bad times were had in Berlin and if we had it to do over again we would've spent an extra day in London and Amsterdam instead. But hindsight is 20/20 but our rotten luck in Germany made us appreciate Denmark so much more. We were there for three days so I'll probably write about that in a few posts.

Thanks for reading!