Trip Highlights - my surviving All Stars.

I´ve been lazy. My aim of keeping a blog and journal of my travels in Europe had fallen by the wayside early in the trip approximately 120 empty beer bottles ago and neither memory nor will is enough to resurrect it. My last entry in my journal was a summary of my travels in Morocco about a month ago and well... this is only my second blog entry. So I´ve decided now to compile a Trip Highlights - my surviving All Stars. For ease they will be chronological order and in point form. Here goes.



Early Berlin (April 18th to April 25th)

• Arrive in Berlin after 36hrs flying drunk on beer and spirits (don´t take United Airlines - their idea of air hostesses is 60yr old men who think they´re women and 60ton women who are too Woman. This begs the question why the weight restrictions on these planes?? Just fire a couple of the big ones)
• Ran around the Pergammon museum seven times
• First taste of Fine German dining - the curry wurst + beer combo
• Oooh aaaah at the Berliner Dome, my first encounter with European churches
• Realize beer is cheaper than bottled water... give up drinking water
• Lose my first camera

Amsterdam (April 25th to April 28th?)

• First afternoon enjoyed the ´modern´ Amsterdam men´s toilet (the Tree v2.0) - a sheet of metal wrapped around a pole a couple of times. Later ate a weak space muffin (0.2g) at Bulldogs Coffee Shop whilst watching the lady next door prepare to Open Shop (at night). XYZ encourages me to eat more cake
• See The Amsterdam Sex Museum and look at depraved historical Jap art, the predecessors to Hentai - old men only, no monsters
• Visit a really cool tulip farm and ride XYZ around on a two seater bike. See first sight of windmills and visit Leiden, a fantastic traditional Holland town with the best tasting waffles I´ve had this trip
• Go on a ´Grand Holland sights´tour. XYZ doesn´t like the tour so we skip the afternoon half and argue with the tour office to refund us our money
• The tour office gives up and gives us canal cruise and Van Gogh museum tickets. We celebrate by visiting Greenhouse Effect Coffee Shop. I convince XYZ to try the cake and we each order a slice, me banana and her chocolate (1g a piece). Head to docks and jump on first canal cruise. Halfway through the cruise shit gets out of hand. XYZ goes numb and I start laughing at cog jokes, really freaking out the couple sitting across from us. We sit for another hour on the boat but the effects of cake last until the next morning
• Give up drugs and go back to beer

Still more to come next time