Eastern europe day 9

We're in Dresden now. :-) now the bus will be going to the the historican sites. Will be going for our walking tour now. Later guys. :-)

Eastern europe day 9

Yummy, doesn't that look good. :-) this cost me 1.70 euro. Not that cheap. It's prob cheaper in the supermarket. Heh heh... Here goes my diet... :-)

Eastern europe day 9

I finally caved in to temptation and got myself a stick of magnum. One of the biggest reasons why i've not yet bought one was because previous to this most of the petrol stations we stopped at didn't take euro and even if they did, converting at the counter was a little troublesome.

Eastern europe day 9

We're still on our way to Dresden and we're back on the bus after a rest stop. I've been eyeing the magnum ice-cream since the first few stops we made way back in Hungary. At every petrol station, i would gaze in amazement at all the different flavours that were available for the magnums and connettos.

Eastern europe day 9

We finally get a good view from our hotel room. Previous to this, we had views of the backyards of other buildings or construction sites. We stayed at the Marriot for the night and it's a comfy hotel with a good breakfast. The worst breakfast we had was at the hotel in Warsaw. The staff in Warsaw were very nice but the breakfast was sparse. Today we go to Dresden. It's an optional tour, we have to pay 25 euros to go but i don't mind. I hear it's a very pretty town so am quite psyched. :-) ok, taking a break now... Later. :-)

Eastern europe day 8

At the end of our city tour we were given some shopping time at the shopping centre of Berlin. Unfortunately we only had an hour to shop which meant that everyone had to rush. I managed to pick out a shirt i rather like but boy is it expensive, it cost 19 euros. The photo above was taken outside the mall that the guide said is the equivalent of Harrods of London. I didn't have time to enter the mall unfortunately. Also take a look at the strange type of trishaw mode of transportation lined up outside the mall. It's a kind of taxi. Quite cool, huh? :-)

Eastern europe day 8

This is part of the original Berlin Wall. It's all fenced up and so you can't touch it. The way the soviets put up the car is amazing. They put it up pretty much in one day. If you see the map of how long the wall was, you'll be amazed how they did it. They secretly made pre-fabricated sections of the wall in factories near the wall. Apparently the news of the possibility of a wall being built leaked out days before the wall came out and something like 3 million people crossed into West Berlin before the wall came up and split the city into two and separated families for about 2 decades.