Apparently this was their final gig together.Was chatting to the lead guitarist after the gig,French Canadian,and she said she had to go home so the band were splitting.Shame but there you go…
This is my final day in Berlin,off to Magdeburg tomorrow morning.It’s only a couple of hours on the train so shouldn’t be too much of a problem.Not been before so looking forward to it…
This trip to Berlin has been a lot quieter than normal.Partly cos’ I’m naturally slowing down as I get older but also because of where I’m staying this time.Even the Aussie barman blew out his cheeks a bit when he asked where I was staying and he’d travelled half way round the world to be there !
For instance it took two hours to get from Kreuzberg to my place.No hold ups,that was the journey time so I had to leave at 10-30 to get the last tram from Alexanderplatz.I’m not complaining as I had to go cheaper this time and no matter where you go you’re not gonna get a central hotel for cheap….
For all you smokers out there ( hello Mr H) this might be of interest to you.When I am in Germany I usually buy pre rolled normal tabs which are about €9 for twenty but you can get packs for €10/€15 and €20.Those €20 packs have about fifty tabs in them and are stupidly massive…at home I usually roll my own and a 30gram pack is £22/23.In the Netherlands an equivalent pack is €15 but in Germany it’s €6-50…I can’t make sense of it all and I can’t even blame Brexit either cos’ French smokes are pretty much the same price as the UK…as an aside I’m alternating between the two genres at the moment depending on my mood…
Had my ticket checked three times now in less than a day so if you’re coming here know that they’re on the ball and they will haul you off the train and fine you..,
Loads of Yorkies in a bar just now with Sheff Utd,Huddersfield,Hull City and,er,Barcelona tops on. No Leeds though,I suppose they wouldn’t have all fit in the bar…Funny thing is I was waiting by the tram stop next to the bar for about fifteen minutes and I didn’t hear one laugh out of them,not even a chortle.Rum lot the Yorkies…
After a good farewell night in my “ local” drinking heavier than expected and talking as much Yamyam bollocks as expected I was in luck this morning when my tram arrived just as I got to the stop and also just as the rain began barrelling down…on the train to Magdeburg.Goodbye Berlin,been great as usual albeit a wee bit quieter too…
The quiet time is probably down to location and also the weather too.I have bought the British summer with me whilst you lot in Blighty have been roasting…
Berlin Hauptbahnhof was heaving as usual.There’s some sort of scam going on with about a dozen women roaming around showing their phones to people on what I presume is a translation page,no idea what the scam is but it’s clearly organised…
My train was late naturally but only by ten minutes so I think that counts as on time or even early in Germany…again it’s a double decker but this time upstairs was rammed so had to make do with the lower decks like Jack in Titanic…
Ok boys & girls that’s it for today…
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Yep, Leeds would definitely have taken more ;/)
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