Or at least that's what I've thought at various stages during this trip...
As you can guess I've made it to Berlin in one piece. Quite a nice journey - the road from Plzen in the Czech Republic was suitably twisty which was cool...a nice ride in fact. Strangest moment of the day came as I was riding up a twisty road up a hill toward the German border not far south of Dresden...at a couple of points as I rounded a bend there came into view a wooden hut featuring various scantily clad Czech girls wildly gesturing at the passing motorists to go over to them. I can't imagine what they wanted, a chat about the weather perhaps.
Speaking of which it's been a glorious day today...strangely getting hotter the further north I went! However before that I have to fill you in on the events since my last post!
Well I had a good wander around Vienna on Monday - I went to the Belvedere gallery which is world famous it seems...certainly it contains the fantastic "The Kiss" by Gustav Klimt... I also savoured the famous Sacher Torte (basicallz chocolate cake) at Cafe Sacher - along with a tasty goulash soup and a couple of coffees. I then headed off to the Sigmund Freund museum. I have to say the museum itself wasn't much cop really but I did sit there for an hour in the library area reading a book about the history of psychoanalysis which was quite intruiging. After a quick bite to eat I decided it was time to head down the FanZone for the Austria-Germany match. Suffice to say that it was absolutely (and borderline dangerously) packed. Not an overly nice experience, especially as Germany won, but worth it for the atmosphere and being ribbed by a few Austrians about Englands lack of participation this year.
So yesterday I decided to head to Plzen via Ceske Budejovice. I have to say the latter of these was an absolutely beautiful place - lovely small (almost medieval) streets and a fantastic castle overlooking it all. Can't really do it justice in words but I shall be uploading the pics when I get back! Then Plzen - bit of a strange place really. This is where lager was first invented apparently and the old town is rather nice...but a lot of the surrounding areas are rather, well, industrial in nature I guess...well that and perhaps a touch of the earlier communism is evident. It was also incredibly quiet - which was kind of nice after the previous few days but was quite eerie as well in a way. I missed any tours happening at the Pilsner Urquell brewery so had to settle for finding a place to eat and drink - which I did, food being fantastic (kind of a spicy boar thing on toast for starter and beef goulash for main) and beer of course very tasty!
So after an early night (was shattered) it was off to Berlin today. As mentioned the ride here was pretty good - arrived at the hostel in good time (though seemed to be full of Americans, heh). Managed to get down to Brandenburger Tor and the Reichstag so far...then walked down to the happening area for the match...which was pretty good, the Russians played really well and fully deserve their quarter final place methinks!
So tomorrow it's a lot more sightseeing - then the Germans take on Portugal which should be an interesting match - hopefully a good win for the Portugese (hope no-one can see my screen now!).
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