THE Burg

So... apparently it's been awhile since our last blog, so we need to update!

We left off with the crazy roommate who slept all the time... when we got back the next day-still sleeping. She might be dead, not sure. After Munich we were off to Berlin! The trains in Germany were actually super nice, and on time which is a bonus since the trains in Italy are pretty much retarded. Anyway so we get to Berlin and pretty much the first thing we see are pieces of the Wall all over the city. It was overcast outside, and overall kind of shady. Basically the city is trying to recover from everything it's been through and we thought they're doing a great job. It's what we expected of Berlin and it was great, the historical monuments were cool, and we're sort of obsessed with Checkpoint Charlie- they give you a stamp for your passport, what more could you ask for... seriously.

BUT in other news from Berlin... we checked into our hostel and we had a 4bed mixed dorm... um, sketchiest 2 guys basically ever. We met them when we dropped off our luggage and they creeped us out so the whole night we were praying that they would just stay out really late and not come back... we even slept in the same twin bed haha, I love hostels. Turns out they never did come back and when we woke up in the morning to go to the trainstation they happened to be down in the lobby- we lucked out. Or so we thought...

We got to the train, hopped on the intercity to Hamburg (or the Burg as I wittily nicknamed it... man I'm funny), and then switched to the train to Copenhagen... basically point of the story is that the whole train goes into a ferry and you have to get out of the train because you can't be in the cargo port during the crossing, so we get up we're walking around and then we realize we're docking in Denmark. We're like hmmm noone's made an announcement but strangely there's noone around.... maybe we should go downstairs and look. We started walking, which quickly turned into running, and as we're running down the stairs there's this old man with a cane at the bottom about to open the door to the cargo port and to the train... so he opens it as we get there and we hear the train doors beep and start to close so we literally PUSH him up into the train and jump in as we hold the doors open and the train moved about 5 seconds after we got on. Um, I know we exaggerate everything to the extreme, but I'm not kidding you I almost had a heart attack. It was like a movie... the old guy who can't walk is slow as all and we're in a foreign country where everyone could care less. All of our luggage was on the train, and we would've been stuck on a ferry in the middle of Denmark where NOONE speaks English, so it's safe to say that God loves us. And that we're apparently the luckiest people on this planet.

Anyway we got to Copenhagen finally and we get to our hostel and about die. Sketchiest.place.ever. We're hoping to stick it out for the next 2 nights but we're in the process of double checking every single hostel we booked and changing anything remotely strange. We want to be cheap, but not wanting to stab ourselves every 30 seconds while we're in our room. Also, everything here is super expensive. Dinner is about 30 dollars... and that's cheap. McDonald's saved us tonight... we'll see what happens tomorrow!

Silvana (and Kathryn- even though she's frantically searching hostels.com ratings)