Most of this day we were sort of just waiting to go and get the train to Berlin so nothing too exciting happened although there were a few interesting points to the day. Milly's French cousin, Louis, is living in Amsterdam so Milly arranged for him to come and meet us in Vondel Park. When he arrived (on his bike like all the Amsterdamians) I asked him if I could call him Loulou, he said I could but I think he thought I was a bit odd for asking considering we had only just met. We all chatted for a while, mostly about what we thought of Amsterdam and Louis told us about how he works for a pub crawl company which is mostly fun but sometimes hard work because you have to be excitable even when you're not feeling it. After a short while I left to find food and when I returned Louis had gone, leaving behind a load of pub crawl leaflets.
As per usual there were some oddlings in the park that talked to us. One man came up to us and asked us if we wanted some postcards. I pretended to be asleep so he wouldn't bother me as he handed out postcards about homeless people. On the the postcards had a picture of a lobster on it and had some writing next to it comparing the lobster to a homeless person, weirdest postcards ever.
Another man, bless his cottons, came up to us to try and sell us refreshments from a cool box. He was Australian but lived in Amsterdam. He told us how he had lost his job and needed to pay his rent so was trying to sell drinks and chocolate bars, I felt sorry for him but not sorry enough to buy anything.
Later in the day we made our way to the train station by tram, when we got there we were panicked, trying to find the correct platform. We also managed to lose a few people as they wandered off in different directions to try and find the platform. Whilst this was going on, those of us with inter railing passes rushed to fill in the details needed as we thought we would have to before we got on the train. We were panicking for absolutely no reason. We got to the platform in plenty of time and didn't actually need to fill in our interailing passes before we got on.
When we got to the platform we saw two girls sitting on the floor, they must have noticed our wrist bands or something because they asked us if we were inter railing. We all decided to sit down and ended up chatting to these girls, Abi and Bryony. They were also interrailing but just the two of them and for a month, they were taking mostly the same route as us but that seems to be a common route with interrailers in general so it was not too surprising.
When we got on the train we hadn't booked seats so we quickly searched for seats near each other. I sat next to Mill. Abi and Bryony sat across the isle from us so we got to talk to them for some of the journey. At one point we decided to play cards with them in the isle which was a bit tricky especially when some one wanted to walk down the train. We never managed to finish our card game because there were too many interruptions.
Whilst we were interrailing Milly was thinking about getting her nose pierced so Abi told Milly about her piercing. She told us a strange story about how she thinks a man stole her nose ring in Amsterdam, suggesting he did so because it was worth a lot. I don't quite understand how he managed to take a metal ring out of her face without her noticing but hey ho.
The train journey to Berlin was fairly uneventful and felt really short although it took 4 hours. When we got off the train we said bye to Abi and Bryony and went to find out how the transport system works in Berlin so we could make our way to our hostel. We also all needed food so we separated into two groups, one group wanted to eat McDonalds, the other wanted to go to a shop called "Back Werk". I was in the Back Werk group. We had a very nice meal, the shop was like a bakery and sold warm pizzas so I had my third pizza of the trip that night but followed it up with a healthy fruit pot, in which I discovered a new type of berry I have never seen or eaten before.
The others took ages to get their food, once they had finally finished and returned to our meeting point we began to make our way to the metro which would take us to near our hostel.
Another man, bless his cottons, came up to us to try and sell us refreshments from a cool box. He was Australian but lived in Amsterdam. He told us how he had lost his job and needed to pay his rent so was trying to sell drinks and chocolate bars, I felt sorry for him but not sorry enough to buy anything.
Later in the day we made our way to the train station by tram, when we got there we were panicked, trying to find the correct platform. We also managed to lose a few people as they wandered off in different directions to try and find the platform. Whilst this was going on, those of us with inter railing passes rushed to fill in the details needed as we thought we would have to before we got on the train. We were panicking for absolutely no reason. We got to the platform in plenty of time and didn't actually need to fill in our interailing passes before we got on.
When we got to the platform we saw two girls sitting on the floor, they must have noticed our wrist bands or something because they asked us if we were inter railing. We all decided to sit down and ended up chatting to these girls, Abi and Bryony. They were also interrailing but just the two of them and for a month, they were taking mostly the same route as us but that seems to be a common route with interrailers in general so it was not too surprising.
When we got on the train we hadn't booked seats so we quickly searched for seats near each other. I sat next to Mill. Abi and Bryony sat across the isle from us so we got to talk to them for some of the journey. At one point we decided to play cards with them in the isle which was a bit tricky especially when some one wanted to walk down the train. We never managed to finish our card game because there were too many interruptions.
Whilst we were interrailing Milly was thinking about getting her nose pierced so Abi told Milly about her piercing. She told us a strange story about how she thinks a man stole her nose ring in Amsterdam, suggesting he did so because it was worth a lot. I don't quite understand how he managed to take a metal ring out of her face without her noticing but hey ho.
The train journey to Berlin was fairly uneventful and felt really short although it took 4 hours. When we got off the train we said bye to Abi and Bryony and went to find out how the transport system works in Berlin so we could make our way to our hostel. We also all needed food so we separated into two groups, one group wanted to eat McDonalds, the other wanted to go to a shop called "Back Werk". I was in the Back Werk group. We had a very nice meal, the shop was like a bakery and sold warm pizzas so I had my third pizza of the trip that night but followed it up with a healthy fruit pot, in which I discovered a new type of berry I have never seen or eaten before.
The others took ages to get their food, once they had finally finished and returned to our meeting point we began to make our way to the metro which would take us to near our hostel.
