What a ferry trip from Oslo to Kiel! i Was on a floating 5 star hotel... complete with my own room, shopping mall and casino. The trip out of Oslo was just a hoot... sitting on the deck of the ferry as it slowly sailing past all the small island in the calm waters,with the sunshine on my back and face reading or trying to read my book... I was in the lap of luxuary for the 1st in weeks...what I'm i saying the 1st time in my life this ship was so not like any other ferry i have ever caught! The Germans were buzy buying up the duty free shopping and looking chic... I was however was still wearing my brown cycling shorts and blue or red top and not at all looking chic... needless to say i didn't go the the 'a la cart' resturant on the ship...
i arrive in Kiel around midmorning and find a place to camp around 20kms from town on the beach... well more like a skinny strip of land wedged between the clifts and ocean that in summer becomes a beach of sorts... Here i read my book from cover to cover and soaked up the sun whilst i wondered what it was i was going to do next!
So how did i end up back in Berlin... well the best made plans sometimes don't work... I was planning to head south and go cycling with friends in France but this, sadly fell through... so i was still in need of friends and made my way with the help of the trains to Berlin...
I arrived in Berlin on a hot sunny day... it was just wonderful to be back i felt like i was home. There is something so very speical about Berlin... some people would not like it but i could live here or at least i could in summer... winter would be a bit hard.. though could be made bearable by the wonderful coats, hats and boots one can buy... Alas not for Perth!
Now i must have been more tired and stressed than i thought as i got sick on the night i arrived... head pain... So bad i had to see a Dr... now its hard enough telling a Dr at home i have pain in my head, but add a bit of a language barrier and its becomes more fun... but the Dr was great... spend 30 minutes chatting to me about the pain and my inability to take morphine based drugs and came up with something to give me... I had to increase the dossage to keep the pain at bay, but they were the best drugs i have ever been given for this kind of pain.... even with the drugs i did have a couple of nights of being up at 3am distressed, but i manged to get through this... I'm so glad i was in the unit alone... whislt it would have been great to have my friends there, having a house guest getting up and walking around the unit at 3am moaning is not much fun for anyone...
needless to say i didn't get much planning done on what or how i was going to spend my last 3weeks in Europe... well not until my firends came home and came up with a great plan....
i did manged to drug myself so well i was able to go and see Blue Man Group in Potdama Pl... It was loud music mostly made by pvc tubes and made funny and colourful with paint. The 1st 10 rows of people have to ware plastic bags... its also very interactive... it was great and i can't even read German... the actors don't talk at all... if it come to Oz or Perth Go!
Now the plan for my last few weeks would be without my best friend Patience and would be with Cooper....
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