Rock im park, bitte

Hello!

Rock im Park, Nurnberg 2006, so much fun! Around 100 bands musicians and DJs played for 3 days and nights, foremost among them being Tool, Metallica, Depeche Mode, Franz Ferdinand... The rain stayed away for the mostpart, and the atmosphere was simply happy-happy-joy-joy.



In the meantime we (Max, Jenz, and I) had ourselves booked into a hostel room for purposes of sleeping during the festival - no more stinky tents and entire weekends of filth, portaloos used by thousands of people per hour, and cold baked-bean sandwiches for me!



The hostel was, however, a very special kind of hostel. A better name for it would probably be "German Highschool Camp".

I'll explain. Our German hostel had the following friendly features:

1. No kitchen
2. No internet
3. Curfew of 1am
4. Check out at precisely 9:15am
5. No alcoholic beverages to be brought through the front door (did I spend too long in Holland?)

On the other hand, they did serve a free breakfast, from 7am until 8:45am.



So on Monday as Max and Jenz drove back west, I made the change to another hostel, this one with the usual kitchen, internet, and checkout time of 12pm for the remainder of my stay in Nurnberg.

Nurnberg is fascinating. Despite having been 90% bombed in the war, it still has a medieval quality that I haven't seen since leaving Holland. Going on a tour around the uncompleted Nazi colloseum was an eye-opener as well.



The colloseum was only half built before economy and war brought a halt to construction, but it's still a monstrosity of a building. Some of Hitler's architectural plans which never got off the ground were completely implausible - one stadium at 90 metres high by the top level seats was to hold 400,000 people at once - the entire population of Christchurch. Apparently this would have meant that from the top levels you would need binoculars just to see what was going on on the ground!



So, on yet another whim I decided to go to Prague on my way to Berlin for a few days, just to check out the czechs and their famously cheap beer... will post some photos of Prague next time!

I just arrived in Berlin today after an amazing morning - got up at 8 after 4 hours sleep (in my 33 bed dormroom in Prague) to catch my bus at 10am. Sat around at the bus station looking dumb for an hour, waiting until it became clear that I had in fact missed the bus, so I trudged through the streets to the train station to buy a train ticket to Berlin. Bought that one, caught a tram to the correct train station and underway lost the train tricket I´d just bought so after scratching my head for a while and being hit on by prostitutes I bought my third ticket for the day and successfully made my way to the wonderful city of Berlin!

Oh and on another note, I found yesterday that I´ve won a scholarship for my first year of studies in Amsterdam - PRIMO!!
Till next time...