Berlin

We have been very lucky with the weather for this entire trip, and this was true in Berlin as well. We stayed with our friends Anne and Nicci, and another of their friends from Canada (Thushari, who was visiting for the week as well). They showed us around their amazing city and were fabulous hosts. There is so much to see and do in Berlin, we did not even scratch the surface during our 3 days. We saw where the Berlin Wall used to be, the amazing German Parliament building, shopping centers, people and general big city life. Buildings that are architecturally beautiful are on every corner of Berlin, but the most amazing one is the German Reichstag. After East and West Germany united, the parliament was moved to Berlin, but the old parliament building desperately needed to be renovated, and this is the design that stuck.

On the Saturday night we went out with some of my friends from University (one of them a Canadian, another a German, but both studied German at U of C with me and are now living in Germany). It was really cool to see so many familiar people in one place and so the people were probably the highlight of our time in Berlin.

At the moment, we are in a Youth Hostel in Tel Aviv, the weather is beautiful, it is 20 degrees right now at 9:30 in the morning! Why didn’t I bring any shorts!! Curses…
It is time to go explore Tel Aviv now, but we should be able to update more often from here as we will have internet access from our Guest House.
(just to be clear, we went to Berlin and THEN to Newcastle, Scotland, Newcastle, London, 7 hour layover in the Budapest airport, Tel Aviv at 3am the computer kicked out just before Corey could post a blog on our time in the UK, so more on that and pictures later)