Farewell Berlin

So. Welcome to my blog.

Take a look around, make yourself feel at home. I've added some friends' blogs as links for your blogging convenience. Also check out the other websites I've linked to - they were all built by Charlie and incidentally, they belong to dear friends of ours from Berlin. We love their work as much as we love them, so take a look and fall in love too (right after you've finished reading this post...!)

Berlin indeed. It's my second-last evening here and after having spent 14 months in this city, leaving it feels like a BIG move.

But I'm ready to go.

I leave Berlin in the midst of World Cup frenzy. There are soccer balls all over the place. As you can see from the pic, the globular part of the TV tower has been converted into a soccer ball. How humiliating. Berliners hate it so much, they voted to have the entire tower knocked down. Hence the crane in the pic swinging towards it, just moments before the act...

I'm just kidding. Alexanderplatz is still a giant construction site (although gradually starting to become less so), so cranes abound.

In keeping with the pixie theme of this blog, I thought I'd add a pic of a real, live pixie that I spotted at Boxhagener Platz:
They really do exist!!! This one was being accompanied by a mysterious tinkling sound wherever he went! Then I spotted the string of jingle bells strapped around one of his ankles and the mystery suddently dissipated.... I must say, his T-shirt was somewhat at odds with the jolly jingling...

I will indeed miss the people (pixie) zoo that is Boxhagener Platz.

I'm off on Thursday morning. I'm travelling to Hamburg with a guy called Martin who I managed to organise a lift with through an internet car-pooling service. From Hamburg I'll immediately be catching a train to Luebeck and staying there for four nights and day-tripping it to Hamburg. Hostels in Hamburg have hiked their prices up because of the World Cup (ggrrrrrrrr.....) so now I can't afford to stay in Hamburg! Not even at a hostel! So glad I'll be out of Germany before the matches actually begin.

So pop by again soon to find out how the next episode of my travels began! I'll update as often as I can. You can all check out those links now! And leave comments! And you may have noticed that one of the links leads to some photos of my last month or so in Berlin - take a look!

Til next time.