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I’m a Water Bottle – Part 3

Lucy immediately checked on me: 你昨天进去了吗, 怎么样睡得着吗? I replied the very unfortunate night that I couldn’t even closed my eyes for longer than one hour. She commented: 你太紧张了，没关系的. Na ja, this is what you’ve got when you illegaly stayed #Constantly self-conscious.

Okay, so what did we do on Day 3? Welcome to our 3L Water Bottle Day! We tackled the 5-hour Kings Canyon Rim Walk.

How many liters did I actually finish? Barely 1.5L, haha! I think the 3L requirement is meant for the groups that start their walk around 10:00 AM or later, when the heat gets dangerous. We, on the other hand, started our hike at the exact same time as the day before 05:20 AM and finished by 10:00 AM-ish.

The absolute hardest part of this hike is the infamous “Heart Attack Hill” stairs. The steps are made entirely out of natural stones, so they are definitely not DIN-normed! 😉

Once you get past that, the pathway was pretty flat #Very walkable. Passing rock formation after rock formation, hit lookout after lookout, simply amazing!

Reaching the Garden of Eden means your hike is 75% complete! We got 20 minutes to take it all in before we had to keep moving toward the exit.

Most people ended their tour here, I would have done the exact same thing had our flight schedule cooperated. We had to stay one more day because flights to Adelaide don’t operate every day.

After the hike, there wasn’t much to do besides packing up, heading back to our very first campsite. “Ate” our last sunset in Northen Territory of Australia.

Matthew hast left earlier, which meant Dom got a cabin all to himself. I was definitely going to slip inside! still wanted to wait until Ryan was completely out of sight, until Lucy cut in: „He is dead tired, just go now“ I ended up falling asleep inside my swag for about 30 minutes before finally making my move to Dom’s cabin.

Day 4

No more waking up at 4:30 AM, for our last day, it was 7:30 AM! Heaven! After breakfast, we were dropped off at the cultural center, where we hung out, had lunch with Lucy and Phoebe until it was time to catch the shuttle bus to the Ayers Rock Airport. I also said goodbye to the Polish couple Monika and…. husband 😉

Thank you so much, Alice Springs + Uluru! What an absolute once-in-a-lifetime experience. Having never camped before, I’m thrilled my first time was in the heart of the Australian wilderness. I’m also so proud that my Wombat powered through it all!

I am so grateful:

  • to be guided by Ryan ~ good luck at your new Job
  • to have met Lucy & her family ~ I completely agree with you that “sometimes the most unforgettable trip is the worst one.” I certainly won’t forget this one! Don’t get me wrong, not that this trip was the “worst” it was just very different from what I’m used to. I was also so entertained by your “almost divorced Philippine trip” or “almost lost your daughter in Budapest trip”, though I’m hoping none of that will happen to me! “Knock on wood
  • to have met my small sister Phoebe ~ thank you for your 月饼
  • to have met Monika with her Bali’s vision ~ perhaps we see us there next year

This adventure was so much more fun, felt so much lighter and will forever be embroidered in my memory because of you all. Whenever you travel to Europe, please contact us! Hope to see you again, perhaps when we visit Australia next time. All the best, take care <3

Phoebe’s next flight to Sydney ended up being delayed until the following day, so she had to stay at the airport hotel. For us, our connection was still technically „possible“. I was told to check with the ground crew in Melbourne the moment we landed. We almost didn’t make our flight from Melbourne to Adelaide, but all that sprinting through the airport wasn’t in vain.

Good evening Adelaide!


Link for our Tour:
Uluru Tour with Kata Tjuta & Kings Canyon (Swag) | Adventure Tours Australia

I’m a Water Bottle – Part 2

Quote from Lucy: If you want to go camping in Uluru, this is perhaps the only option. Look at that, we have two doctors family, even they were on the same ‘crappy’ tour as us haha! #This woman is gold!

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Whats to Wear? – Part 2

Our last day at Mamacita’s place, before moving to Ibis Sydney Airport Hotel, started with a very warm ~ honestly, leaning toward scorching morning. Deciding to leave our jackets behind, we headed out for the day. Aside from Alvin, who are my schoolmates who lives in Sydney? Betsy, my second-grade primary school friend from Lampung, and Mario, my high school friend from Bandung!

We could only meet Betsy during her lunch break in the Barangaroo area. Hey, I’m actually familiar with that place! We had ramen and bubble tea.

During lunch, Betsy mentioned that Bondi Beach was actually close by and had a direct bus. Oh! Well, then why not?! She also suggested Coogee Beach, but we just wanted a quick look since we didn’t have that much time.

Then, the weather shifted. Our outfits were the biggest mistake ever! The moment we stepped off the bus, unstoppable cold wind greeted us. There was barely anyone at Bondi, we didn’t even bother walking along the coast. Just take us back to the city, please!

Proceed to Doms fav place in Sydney, what else other than… Chatswood! Waited until Mamacita got back to the apartment. Even though we stayed inside the Glam pancake restaurant, the wind kept coming.

Receiving a text saying they were back home was such a huge relief. However, she still needed to work and couldn’t check her phone, so we waited another 20 minutes until Carlos finally saved us from freezing to death haha.

After packing our luggage, we had dinner with Mario at D’Penyetz. Thank you, Mario for treating all of us! He reassured me many times: „It’s fine, you treat me back when I go to Europe“ Yes we’ll do, I jampe-jampe him for sucess, rich, prosperous, healthy, happiness and so on and so forth 🙂

With that, our City chapter comes to an end. Next stop: the real wilderness!

Whats to Wear? – Part 1

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Leg Day

Continuing from Whats to Wear? – Part 1 we managed to arrived Circular Quay with 1,5 hours time buffer. Since Wombat loves Tiramisu so much, I wanted him to get a second opinion at Bar Totti ~ a spot Queencha introduced me to. To see how it compared to the one Carlos showed us at Grill Americano. The verdict? He wasn’t convinced, still prefers the first one.#Ah well, I tried 🙂

Headed to Sydney Bridge Climb meeting point, registered ourselves, of course we met another Wombat Plushie. While registering, the employee told us the climb will take about 3 hours, what?! I’ve done Brisbane’s Bridge Climb Vitamin B – Part 2 ~ granted, it’s a smaller bridge, I think it was only half the time of Sydney’s although the Bridge wasn’t half the size of Harbour Bridge.

Here, the indoor briefing and safety introduction alone took about 45-50 Minutes.

We booked our climb at 16:45 I think either 16:30 or 16:45 in late September was perfect: we caught the last bit of daylight, watched the sunset then got to see all the city lights.

The only hard part was the first and last 10 minutes because of the steep stairs. It was tiny bit „scary“ when the sun was still out, you look straight down at the water below. Once the sun set, you couldn’t really see the steps clearly anymore ~ ofc headlights were provided.

The walkaway after the stairs was pretty flat. Your eyes stay fixed on the surrounding views anyway, you can’t really look down unless you just want to stare at concrete and steel hehe

Photos were an extra 60 AUD on top of the ticket entrance that were already cost 450 AUD, originally we didn’t want to pay for it… in the end we couldn’t resist because they turns out very beautiful, especially this Gold one <3 Regardless the cost, we both were very delighted for this experience.

Afterward, we headed back to Chatswood to meet up with Mamacita. The commute took so long, by the time we arrived, almost all the restaurants were already closing. In the end, McDonald’s was our only option! We met up right as they finished watching Resident Evil movie.

What a massive leg day, hey!

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How About… No?

My third trip to Phantasialand with my übliches Gang, first in Summer! Me & Sophie travelled together whereas Chantal went from Bielefeld, we met her on the train.

There was already obstacles on the way: delays + stops cancellation.

Instead of less than two hours, our journey took 3,5 hours. What a way to start the morning!

We arrived at 11:20, immediately told the girls: “Mädels I really want to ride the FLY, the queue was always 90 Minutes, definitely won’t get any shorter later”. After just one ride it was already lunch time, at the Chinese restaurant Sophie had a “brilliant” idea to go here again in December. Now that I have my boyfriend, I most probably can’t do it. I can imagine we’ll spend Christmas with my adopted family ~ Claudia & Gang and next days perhaps with his too. We haven’t talk about it yet, but rather than making a false hope, I directly rejected her idea.

We use the waiting time as Verdauungszeit, unfortunately we chose the wrong one: Colorado Adventure. I misscalculated it, somehow I remembered it as a gentle ride #It wasn’t. Not listening to my body, we headed straight to Black Mamba. That was the end for me, Game Over! I couldn’t do any rides anymore as all I have was a feeling to throw up. We decided to watch a show, I was asleep for first 10 minutes then gain some energy to wake up. They went to do Wasserbahn while I’m sitting on the floor hahaha Dominik asked aren’t there any Bank?

Eventually I felt well enough to explore by myself, decided to get into the temple out of curiosity. It’s a room with stories then you enter another room, sit down… Suddenly, the safety bar locked… the damn room moved upside down! it’s a visual trick! which makes me even want to throw up, I had to close my eyes. When I got out, they also finished. Chantal wanted to go back earlier, so we all left.

All things went wrong that day, the Ubahn didn’t arrived, how long does the journey back took? 5,5 hours! Sorry Mädels, I’m very positive there is no more Phantasialand with Öffis. I’m too old for this shit. I’m open for new activities but this. Thank God we went on Summer where the Sun stays until 22:00. Imagine this happening in Winter, I would’ve dropped dead! Perhaps our Gangs name says it all: all good things come in threes, anything beyong that is unnecessary 😉

Redo

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Double-double – Part 5

Dom had a list on what he will do during this hot summer, taking in all Wochenende. On a spontan Sonntag, both of us haven’t done keramas #Greasy, I know, we know 😉 hmm what to do? he said let’s go to Plettenberg there is Aqua Magis. Aha! Let’s use their water! the whole activity was inspired by my old Apartment’s experience where I haven’t got hot water for around two weeks resulted I went to Schwimmbad everytime I want to wash my hair.

There was a 4 hours ticket to which cost 2€ cheaper than day ticket, we liked Therme Erding so much therefore we decided to buy entrance for whole day. Not all Wasserrutschen were on Betrieb, however I don’t think that’s an issue at all. Learning from Therme Erding, I don’t want to go to the one that has a deep dive, don’t want to bang my head against it. What could be a potential of killer joy, let’s do it the last 🙂 #Doms Strategie.

As a warm up, we tried the newest version of Wasserrutschen ever, Surfer Bahn which means we have to stand up. I saw how other people done it including kids! they could really go fast as if they were surfing. When I tried it the first time, I couldn’t bring myself to rutsch, therefore walked the whole Bahn! My second was on the outdoor Surfer Bahn it didn’t make any difference, tried my third: nothing changed, still couldn’t managed to nail it! Dom didn’t even try for his third time.

Then we went on the “normal” Wasserrutschen until the last one! we sat while carrying a backpack haha no I’m not Dora the Explorer. It’s a big round Platte as your Rucksack because the water pressure will push you, on the curve I hit my head then back flipped! It took some of my energy to get me into the correct position again. Kind of lost balance afterwards, killer joy done! Spent my time on Sauna or swimming pool.

I was ready to go but it was only 3,5 hours. Hmm.. felt our money hasn’t reach break even let’s stay a bit longer 😉 Reach our 4 hours quota, yeay! wir haben + gemacht haha. Now we can leave the premise, off to mandi!

Overall, I believe 4 hours here is definitely enough. It’s not a bad, it’s just smaller than Therme Erding. On the way back home though it’s bad, there are many Bauarbeiten meaning road blocks, you have to drive around Lüdenscheid. The journey took us 1 hour there and 2 hours return.

I think it’s safe to say Dom remove all Sauerland Activities from his list 😉

There Erding snaps: When Life Gives You Lemon – Part 2

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When Life Gives You Lemon – Part 2

Although the solely purpose of this trip is to introduce Dom to my parents, we gotta keep going with the secondary purpose: us squeeze it into lemonade 😉

Itinerary changed, see you next time Königsee, we are heading to Therme Erding ~ reason: it’s still cold in March we were gonna dropped dead if we are going to an open nature area, warmer place we chose. Arrived, put our stuff in the locker, before we entered to the Thermal, we have to walked passed shower area. Dom said we need to take a quick duschi duschi first ~ I remembered that was the procedure in Iceland. So I did, went to the outside hall, didn’t see him. Walked back to the locker area, no clue of where’s he’s about. Mind you, I didn’t have my towel, was already shaking. Re-showered just to get some splash of hot water, re-visit the outside hall, nope. I screamed his name at least 8 times until we finally met. I said “we need to go directly inside the water because I’m freaking shivering right now” Once we dip ourselves, boah! Heaven!

The Thermal has some pressure bubble things to which it reminded me of my Thalasso Experience with my sister in Rimba Bali. However, this one isn’t traumatizing, very relaxing type, not the one that made you feel you just got beaten from 10 security guards.

After we felt warm enough, we went to Wasserrutschen area only to be back again where we came from as it’s only opens on 13:00. So we swam in Wellenbad with noodles until lunch time 🙂 It was still not 13:00 yet, luckily we found one “Coconut” thingy which doesn’t have a “Reserve” card. Yes! Jackpot!

Off to go for Galaxy Rutschenwelt! it was fun carrying the sliding tyre, we slided on VR, magic eye, black mamba, speed racer. I enjoyed everything until one slide called High Fly: do not, I repeat DO NOT slide on it! The instructions confused us “do not move your head” , “put your head forward” anyway it went super quick as the ride itself short yet steep, my head hit the slides, felt like I almost fainted or had a slight concussion. Our fun stopped immediately right there and then. I said to Dom it’s enough for me, I just want to lie down tried to sleep because I can’t continue doing anything, wanted to throw up. Luckily our Coconut is still free!

At 20:00 they provided a trial of a mask, we’ve done that too. I took two handfull of salt where the guy said “go to Sauna wait until you sweat then scrub your body with it, 10 minutes is enough”. Well… I didn’t sweat, don’t know how long should I wait. Scrubbed myself nevertheless then went out catching Dom ate his second Oreo Muffins. AHA, gimme one bite. We swam one more time inside, had dinner, real duschi duschi, finally call it the night.

We deserved some relaxing strolling in Munich city center especially after that wild slide in Therme Erding. Who did I call? the one and only QQ Dite! He introduced us to 80 Cents too big Gurke at Virtualienmarkt. On the way there, Dom found his Sipmate: The Alley! QQ showed us the menu from his Ramen’s restaurant, I directly comment “Yo, 25€ a portion? you gotta give us something, it’s very damn expensive, here I want Takoyaki” He replied “Safe” Got his confirmation, booked a table for two. Am I the worse customer? ehemmmm….

I said to Dom he need to have a picture at the Eisbach #Tourist, his happiness level vs to when he was at the Naruto Cafe QQ had recommended 😀

Thanks QQ for the recommendation, I believe Indonesian knows places the best! Including for Berlin, trust me, we know stuff #We are everywhere!

When Life Gives You Lemon

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The Moment I Knew – Trial Version

Tonight is The OG vs The Rookie’s, shall we kick things off?!

It’s 3rd round of Allerheiligen Kirmes! Had Hainka didn’t told me, I would’ve missed it, obviously this comes first other than some singing #Sorry not sorry #Not the only one who feels bad. Traditions are meant to be followed, otherwise what’s the point?

Since Feli always want to come, I asked her if she could join us this time, Dom is on board too. So we were a gang of 5 this year. Once we arrived, waste no time to have our mandatory picture, watch out ~ only the OG here, although our pose were only stand, we need to confirm the position & angle with comparison pictures from previous years #Efforts!

Hainka & Lena were steady as always ~ very good guide, told the Rookie what is what + what we’ve done + where all the attractions were before: how they changed the locations, swapping here and there.

Our essentials throughout the years: AMPEL! 7 Euro for all three flavors ~ my favourite! We cannot skip Froggy! why? Because Lena won it! BOAH!!!! The OG really has experienced in comparison to…. video will do the justice 😉 Promat Hammer still there, wonder if they would ever change to Tecwerk’s #Werbung.

Honey schnapps where the owner sing or tried to talk with customers and he announced: “oh this couple are coming from far away, can anyone guess?” being a German they weren’t the type of answering those kind of questions, from Bodensee. Hainka wasn’t impressed, eh komm, du kommst theoretisch aus Indonesien, es ist doch weiterer als nur Bodensee. Sag ihm doch mal, he did say to the colleague of the owner while he was too busy on his microphone to noticing us. Well, I didn’t gave him my Beitrag anyway so it’s OK for him to ignoring me hahaha. Next in line is Langos 🙂 Food Tour is done, for Schnapps Tour, one more station: Augenbulle.

Strolled around pointing the historical place where I was gekotzt haha which pavements, alley, bar and church #Facepalm. Oh, consecutively met another Lena!

Dom kommt überall mit, he joined Hainka on the Super Supferl #My Wendepunkt Carousel + joined Feli on Voodoo Jumper. Right on the end, we stumbled upon Big Monster Carousel, Lena said it’s the OG, from hundred years…. as if I want to change the prophecy, let’s try. First minute was OK then it was too much, seems age didn’t lie hey? Komischerweise, Achterbahn for me is not caused so much troubled as this one.

Our To-Do List:

  • Ate what needed to be eaten #Nomnomnom
  • Schnapped what needed to be schnapped #酒鬼
  • Played game what needed to be played #Smashed
  • Rode what needed to be ridden #Dizzy
  • Met who needed to be met #Hi
  • Had all the fun that needed to be had 🙂

My boyfriend bought me a Lebkuchen that I was contemplating if I need to eat or use it as Decoration? Well it has 2 years of expiration date, it’s enough to decide until then 🙂 Can you see it? can you can you?

For the past two years, I always rode home ALL BY MYSELF! This year and hopefully for the next years to come, I won’t be ALL BY MYSELF anymore! Why? For I have a big heart now 🙂

Thank you for the evening Hainka & Lena, store your clothes again because those outfits are not going to retirement anytime soon, it’s our OG trademark, watch out!

The Moment I Knew – Safe Version

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The Amazing Race – Part 2

Time in Venezia is on another dimensional. What says only 30 Minutes could be 50 Minutes due to crossing the river by “Water Ubahn”, couldn’t predict how long the queue gonna be. We barely had buffer before the meeting point for “Island” Hopping, ran like hell all the way through since got out from our AirBnB + had to detour because the GPS Signal kept jumping which dragged us to a wrong Gasse where the end was water instead of road, luckily we stopped on time. During this whole race, told Dom I’m not sure if they will wait for us, nevertheless we gotta give our best shots, keep running! Saw a bunch of people gathered + a tour guide who already started briefing, yeap that’s our tour = we made it, in a nick of time.

Arrived at Murano for glass demonstrations where the craftsman were making a horse under one minute. His translator said “Our work is not according to safety standards as this is more like a family business, how many times he burnt his hand? every time”. It is very impressive, especially when the horse is finished, he put a slice of paper and it burnt, cool! Photos are not allowed inside the store, the American lady from the tour asked if I visited second floor, I have no idea they have second floor. She explained it was breathtaking, like for a much bigger item such as chandelier with pattern + color out of glass. Do I think the glass decorations are pretty? At first I’d say “why not?” the moment I saw the price my answer changed to “it’s definitely not” 😉

Dom asked if there is some I like to take as a memory from here, si! a small colorful heart shape pendant <3

We stayed perhaps 45 – 50 minutes top at Murano only for Vetreria Ducale Glass Factory. Then off to Burano where we got more time. Since I forgot our banananaaa, hungry kicked in so I stayed at the chicken nugget counter while Dom followed the tour. In the end he separated himself as they just walked around and talked, they didn’t, they had a lace demonstration, we didn’t go, were busy on taking pictures and + snacks on our own.

How busy were we? Very! To the point that none of us paid attention to the wherabout of our meeting point for next island: Torcello. I was sure it was exactly on the same place where they dropped us, just some steps back, I even saw our boat. Dom noted some additional info that leads into confusion as we have another church building on the other side which also has water. Did we made it? Nope! The word “upset” wasn’t enough to describe my dissappointment. Never have I ever missed such important information, couldn’t comprehend it. There is a first time for everything but this surely must be the last. We came up with a better strategy for next trip because this stupid mistake musn’t be repeated.

As if things can’t get worse? oh yes it can, on the way back to Venezia a lady who sit next to me has a leak water bottle. I only realized it when my side part of my clothes were wet, luckily I’m wearing light brown therefore it wasn’t too visible. What else? we got scammed by some sellers, now we have 2 angeblich Hakuna Matatas bracelet #He can say anything, the way he wanted us to have it was by throwing it, out of reflects I catched it, then no turning it back. He gave us an elephant statue and again angeblich bracelet from Kenya, what are we gonna do about it? left it at our AirBnB 😀

Tainted afternoon need some reparation. Dom lead the trip as I don’t want to think anymore, I’ve done that job long enough already. We visited a very interesting book shop with a hot rabbi calendar, oh yeah, mood booster, things got better there 🙂 You can only walk one direction, there is a corner about a story about Hermes, Balanciaga or Dom’s fav Lamborghini. It’s interesting until you see the price, nope! Let’s just have a digittalllllll version of the book hahaha.

Then we walked to Ponte dell’Accademia, wow! the Grand Canal view was breathtaking, more breathtaking than the second floor of the Murano Factory Glass for sure 😉 haha. The Cupola from Santa Maria della Salute, we stopped for a while to enjoy it. Life is good again <3

Since we haven’t properly eat all days, we had an evening of what Dom called “Food Experience” at II Paradiso Perduto. Guys, it’s really good! I’d say from all restaurant we ate, this is the best one. Unfortunatley we couldn’t finish all of the fish, if I’m in Indonesia, I would have take all the fishes and gave it for street cats, Dom was totally against it. He was thinking about Müllentsorgung usw und so forth. Sorry stray cats 🙁 I’ll do better next time!

But how? maybe eat it all haha

The Amazing Race

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Repeat

I stayed at Maria’s for my weekend in Berlin, her door is easily recognized by a cat door haha, it is very practical, her cat can easily in and out the building. Mister Cat is a very active one, he woken me up either by playing around the room or jumping to me whenever I am relaxing, he can’t take anyone is resting. Once I’m ready to roll, it was his sleeping time. I had a habbit of needing to know where he at, Mister Cat must be safe and sound. I looked everywhere for his sign, behind the blanket or so only until I see him whereabout I’ll leave Maria’s place. You woke me up, now it is my turn #Karma.

On Friday evening I had dinner at Maria’s family. Her step-childrens are all very smart, they got into an international school, could speak English fluently at the age of only 6 and 8.

Look at this, very sweet hey!

During dinner, they planned to go to “The Art of the Bricks” on Saturday. The kids asked if I can join, awwwwww… klar! My plan was only meeting Nicolas for lunch + Dinner with Sunny, other than that I would love to join you guys. They picked me up around 10:30 ish, thought we need to be super careful as the Art was made of Legos, nope it’s all glued with more glue than super glue hahaha. The whole place took about one hour to visit. See those little hands haha very cute hey! Oh who took the picture? Gaby did it but he didn’t take picture of our face #Oh well…

We separated for lunch as I will have it with Nick & co. For dinner, I requested Sunny ~ a Koreanish lady we met during our flight to Iceland, to eat at Korean restaurant. I sooooo miss Korean BBQ + their sauce. We had a problematic stove, we waited, hmmm why it’s not getting hotter? Lifted the BBQ plate, oh the fire is off again, happened at least 4 times. Showed Sunny my crazy Russian Tsar hat for tonight’s party, she said “now you also have a costume for Halloween next year” #zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe schlagen.

That goes my Saturday, very packed! On Sunday, I was begging “Mister Cat, please go somewhere else, I’m dead tired. RIP me” My agenda was visiting Jüdisches Museum, it is for free! Yeay!

It is indeed a very well-kept Museum, interactive, modern and very big too. You could spend at least 3 hours there or you could also sit a lot like me haha I only fast forward when I want to go to see Nick again 😉

On Monday I joined a free walking tour with our guide Alex, it’s kind of a private one, only Jayleen + his father and me 🙂 Alex mentioned the red traffic lights at Postdamer Platz were the oldest traffic lights in Germany. Aha! Already knew it back then from Sebastian.

We walked passed a 5,5 km Tiergarten which is bigger than Central Park ~ 3,5 km. Thanks to Friedrich Wilhelm II who tore down the wall in Tiergarten so it wasn’t a royal hunting garden only. He is homosexual, at that time his father couldn’t accept it, since he can’t kill his own son, he let Friedrich watch he killed his lover 🙁 In the end he married a Princess, sad for both. We also saw the Monument of the Homosexual people that got killed.

We talked about Facism comes whenever capitalism is threatened, a connection between burning book in 1933 targeting works by Jewis, Marxist, socialist, pacifist and other “un-German”; Kristallnacht in 1938 as a violent pogrom against Jewish people in German and Austria.

Alex explained the Victor Column (Siegessäule) was built to commemorate Prussia’s military victories against Danish, Austria and France. As a matter of facts, it is partially decorated with captured cannons from them. The famous “Dem Deutschen Volke” (To the German People) on the Recihstag building is made from melted French cannons #Interesting.

Moving on to the iconic Brandenburger Tor, where Alex gave some Petty war between Germany and France. Victoria’s Statue on top of the gate seems to gaze indirectly toward the French Embassy; Berlin Fernsehturm was added the third tear so its slightly taller than Eiffel Tower or when during parades and military processions, the German army circle back to create an illusion of a larger force to impress onlookers.

When you’re already in Brandenburger Tor, you can’t miss the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. It has paint with anti-graffiti coating from Degussa, a German chemical company. Although later they found out, it was quiet problematic, as Degussa is a subsidiary of Evonik Industries who supplied a chemical used in gas chambers during the Holocaust.

We were on top of Parking place, what’s so special about it is what lies beneath which was believed as Hitler’s bunker! Honestly, I would like to see where he spent his last hours though, at the same time I could also understand that none normal Germans wants to have a place where people could “pay a tribute” for him.

I have to ended the tour earlier as I have last dinner with Nick, thank you Alex for the guide. I thought this “Rude Bastards Tour of Berlin” will take or tell me somewhere something I haven’t heard before. Nope, it’s a similar route like classical Berlin only he doesn’t need to be careful with his language. I’m not complaining, I could be more relaxed in terms of absorbing all the stories. Jayleen was “what are you doing here? you seems to know it already” haha Btw congratulations on finishing your studies, hope the best for your App-Airport development, can’t wait to use it. We will see us again when I visit UK 🙂

FYI, there are many providers like Get Your Guide or Booking who charge a small booking fee for Free Walking Tour like 2,5 or 3,5 Euro or so but it didn’t go to the tourguide. Alex informed me, for future better to book direclty from the website.

After dinner, I went back, get myself ready while Maria still at work. Can’t say thank you enough to you for opening your home for me. Will I repeatedly coming to Berlin again? #Easy answer