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Day 5: The dragon mountain and on to Berlin.

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Relaxed breakfast with Willie and Kati before we packed as much activities as we could be four our train to Berlin. This is why Germans always have so much energy and hard work ethic, they start their days right :)

 


Then as we headed to the mountain we were going to climb we drove along the river 'ah' through steep valleys lined with countless vinyards. Miles and miles of grape vines that would make all of our parents jealous. 
We then had a very hurried climb up dragon mountain...(German name coming soon). The sun was a sweltering 32 degrees but luckily we were in the shadow of the trees for most of the way! It took us about an hour tot the top but we got the monorail back down before rushing off again to make it to the train. Made it in time ...but oh BOY, busy train! Reminded to self...if a train is longer than 1 hour...BOOK A SEAT!! (Even if the advise says not to bother!!) we stood for approx 30 minutes but final,y after one of th busier stops we got a seat till Berlin.  We slept, read, blogged and ate the delicious lunch that Petra had prepared us :)

   

Finally, after a few metro changes, we made it to our hostel!! There is a very good transport system in Berlin! The hostel here is a bit of a different tone from what we have come across so far, it is evident that this is definitely more of a party city. And how are the rooms hotter than outside?! Overlooking the train tracks...not an ideal location but it will do us for now (we knew setting the standards high from the beginning would spoil us). We were hungry and tired when we arrived so we went to the nearest place we could get food by the hostel, which just happened to be this curry wurst stand (curry wurst is something you have to try in Berlin according to Kati). Probably wasn't the most swanky place to get food, the plate of food was buried underneath tomato sauce and mayonnaise and their hygiene standards were... questionable (don't worry parents, we're fine!!🙃) . Despite that, it was pretty good, although we reckon we were at that level of hunger where anything would have tasted good.  As long as it doesn't kill us we're good!


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