SO it’s been pretty busy times of late. we had a holiday for May Day and took the opportunity to visit my wonderful host sister from my time in Hannover, Miriam. She’s now living and studying in Heidelberg which apart from being a favourite hangout for contiki tourists is also a beautiful old university town on our beloved Neckar River with a falling apart old castle nestled in the hill above it. Apart from celebrating Miri’s birthday a little early we where there for an awesome tradition: a 2 hour long hike up a hill to an amphitheatre where students eat, drink, fire twirl and be merry. it was cool! there were about 10000 people up there!

The next day we sadly had to leave Miriam to her formidable law study and head home. the two days of uni slipped as if with a life of their own and suddenly I was in a car headed to Berlin. I guess there’s two things to talk about here 1. mitfahrgelegenheit.de rocks my world, it’s a website to get in touch with people driving to where you want to go. we have similar sites in Australia (needaride is one off the top of my head) but they’re not nearly as functional as this. I was doing a desperate last minute ring around on Thursday night and found a lift for the next day to Berlin. The train fairs have gone though the roof since I was here in 2003. you can barely get anywhere for under 100 Euros. meanwhile I could have flown to Berlin for that return. There’s some screwed up stuff going on in Europe in the aviation industry maybe the topic of a later post but for now I’ll leave you with plane stupid.

Why the heck was I on my way to Berlin? ….stay tuned!

Mwaah

Ellie