Pretty happy me and Andreas leave Dresden in a soaking hot blaze of sunlight. It’s against well over 30 degrees around 10 in the morning. And that means we were up before for some time already.

The start of the trip started quite nicely. After about 1.5 hours we got picked up by a guy from Dresden who owns a sportsbar in about every city in the country. About 5 in Berlin.

We get a ride in a custom build Porsche something. The car is quite full, so we are going ‘slow’, he said. A joke apparently because even for Germans 240 km/h is quite a speed. Especially when zigzagging between the right and left lane. About 1.5 hours ( 200 km ) later we are in Dresden.

There begins the great search because we don’t have a couch and we don’t like hostels ( we started out rock ‘n roll yes ). We meet some students who all appear to be couchsurfers, though nobody is ready to take up a few couchies. We checked into the emergency list, but alas nothing.

Because it’s nice and hot still ( 32 degrees ) our throats needs some softening. We meet up with some psycho and a bunch of schoolgirls ( don’t ask how this went, but everybody was jumping in the same street or so ) . I get 4 digital camera’s pushed into my hand to take some group pictures.

The day ends on the riverside of the Elbe. We didn’t find anybody who wanted to host us and the emergency group shows pretty dead. Maybe because it’s thursday, student party night. I put up my tent behind a bush directly across the old city centre.

Dresden by the way is a pretty nice city.

The Teufelsberg in West-Berlin has an interesting history and probably the coolest abandoned place to visit in the city. Be sure to read to wiki about this place! Photo’s also proudly stolen from Marleen and Sarah.

Last saturday a demonstration started from five different places in Berlin. The starting points where all places being threatened by megalomanic buildings plan and neoliberal use of the spree riverside. We departed from Kunsthaus Tacheles, which is threatened by closure in four weeks. It was a colorful party-like march to show the city what it will miss if it squanders it’s cultural diversity, it’s open spaces and clubs. Exactly the thing that makes Berlin still an unique place opposed to most other West-European cities which look exactly the same. The imagine-less corporate-landscape. Anyhow, the march (38 degrees celcius) ended in cool-down waterfight in a fountain.

The Teufelsberg in West-Berlin has an interesting history and probably the coolest abandoned place to visit in the city. Be sure to read to wiki about this place! Photo’s also proudly stolen from Marleen and Sarah.