Our second day started with a “quick
“trip to the Bahnhof to book our tickets to Berlin, I had sold this trip to GO
way back when by saying it was cheaper to travel to Buende via Berlin than
travelling direct. As we started to make
our next plans I couldn’t find the deal I was looking for on Deutsche Bahn,
which was when I remember that there was coach company called Flix, it had two
tickets from Muenchen to Berlin for 50 Euros. The coach would take 6 hours
(half an hour longer than the train) there were no transfers and we would
arrived at 10.30 am leaving us time to find our hotel and explore some of
Berlin. It sounded too good to be true and… it was… amazing. Yes, we did have to get the coach at 3am,
there would be only one pit stop and no food trolley, but we could sleep the
whole way. We bought snacks from Aldi to
have on board (croissants and Frappuccino anyone?), the pit stop came at just
the right moment. I randomly met an
English guy who was trying to make chatty conversations with me about my accent
at the pit stop, I couldn’t even try to be civil at 6am. Sleeping was a bit tough, but GO had bagged
the back seat so we luckily had a bit more room and no one knocked us as they
made their way towards seats or toilets.
We were sat adjacent to a couple
of guys, GO said they had never met
before and spent the first half an hour buying tickets to Latvia, so that the
second guy could get home. Which I think
is quite nice. In front of us we had the
two Irish girls from the Brauhaus who had been flirting with the Aussie guys. I was tempted to ask them how it had gone with
the guys, but within minutes of getting on board they were both asleep. When they did wake up they began frantically
looking for flights to London from Berlin, what I could gather (GO was asleep
and I was bored of the scenery) they were supposed to fly back from Muenchen
the following week and rather than spend extra time there they had decided to
move onto Berlin. I got the impression
that while it had seemed like a great idea to go to Berlin (tickets were only
50 Euros) the flights from Berlin were coming in at £100 +, I wonder if it had
been suggested by the Aussie lads.
On our arrival we made our way to
our hotel, I suggested that we should get travel cards, like we had in
Muenchen, this was when I realised how different Berlin is to Muenchen, the travel
card cost 25 Euros, each! My budget was
blown, as was my mind. Buying the card wasn’t
easy either, there were a lot of options on the automat. It wasn’t helped by the “friendly” Berliners
who just pushed past and ignored my pleas for assistance (Auf Deutsch, I should
have tried English). Finally we worked
it out and were on the way to our hotel.
At least we knew what to expect there, didn’t we?
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