Berlin Day 1

A piece of advice I was given by a student here at a UCL pub one night was, "Don't stick around for reading week, travel!" So that's exactly what my friends and I did, took 6 days to visit Berlin and Stockholm! Of course now I have lots of reading to do this weekend, as well as a paper due on Monday, but I can take some time to tell you about our trip, since it's the reason I have not posted in so long!

So, Berlin made lots of sense to us. I have a cousin currently studying abroad there (not in Munich as I previously thought, sorry Coerte!) so it was a great chance to catch up with him and be taken to the best pubs in the area by a semi-local. Yes, I was taken on my very first pub crawl! Stockholm ended up being a bit chilly and snowy to say the least, but two friends of mine have a friend studying abroad there, and it only costed us €17 (which is about 20 dollars) to fly from Berlin!! 

We left extremely early Friday morning to find ourselves surrounded by German by 9:30! We then made our way to our hostel, called Plus Berlin, which is beautiful and amazing by the way. I highly recommend Plus hostels for anyone needing a cheap, comfortable, safe, and clean place to stay. We'd not had very much sleep, but had limited time in the city so we ventured out to see what we could see!

Our first stop was Museum Island, named so because it is exactly that. An island in the middle of the city with a bunch of museums on it.

The Pergamon Museum 

The National Museum

We went to the Pergamon Museum that first day and were exhausted afterwards, but it was beautiful and so worth it. 

The Gates of Babylon 

 Hoping for an early night, we took some more pictures, some of a beautiful cathedral on Museum Island, and then headed back to the hostel for dinner at their restaurant.

Our first German beers!! 

We went to bed early that night so we could get up and moving the next morning. Which we did, so stories about our three hour tour are to come! Again sorry I haven't posted in so long, there will be many posts shortly about the trip. 

Have a wonderfully marvelous day, bitte! ~ Laura 

P.S. That's pronounced bitteh and essentially means cheers in German.