Berlin Part II / Hambuhren

Train view between Berlin and Prague

Saturday morning we had a few hours in Berlin before we took our first train to Hambuhren for the rest of the weekend. Sarah wasn't feeling the greatest so she had a nap on the couch at the hostel while I ventured to the south side of Berlin by myself to visit one of the top 1001 buildings to see in the world - the Jewish History Museum. Unfortunately, I had left my SD card in my laptop the night before, so my camera was completely useless, but I did get a few on my phone. You can Google image it and you'll see why its cool, for me at least. There are cuts out of the building to represent the violence in Jewish History.

Sarah doing paperwork

After this we made our way to the train station. We didn't really know how everything worked out as far as where we were to sit, as we only had our 2 month train pass, so we ended up having to move 2 times on the first train. We did however make it to Hambuhren without too much difficulty and was picked up at the station by one of the friends.

Of course it would be cold and rainy at convention, when we are backpacking... Everyone was wearing tights and winter coats and we're shivering in our sandals and cardigans! It was enjoyable regardless. We met a lot of cool people from Germany, Switzerland, and Holland which was really fun. We will hopefully meet up with our new Holland friends when we go there in July!

Being awesome with our
sleeping sheets.

At Hambuhren, there wasn't a whole lot of sleeping room, so they rented out the whole hostel in town and lots of people stayed there. It was very different, but it was also really nice because Sarah and I had our own room (probably the only time this whole trip besides our apartment in Paris!) and there was no worries about hot water for showers!

Hambuhren is a really cute village/town. There are lots of old barns and farm houses and cows and stuff. We basically only saw a tiny bit through the car window as we were driven from place to place, but we were charmed none the less!

Sunday afternoon we left Hambuhren to go back to Berlin so we could catch our train to Prague. We really learnt our lesson on time management in the train station there - Sarah and I were separated so one could watch for the train (it was late) and the other could get dinner for the road. Thank goodness for cell phones, or one of us would have for sure been left behind in Berlin!

Barn in Hambuhren

On our way to Prague we made friends with a guy in our train compartment, so that was cool. We also very much enjoyed our view of the country side - especially between Dresden and the Czech border. We were alone in our compartment during this time, which was good, because we were overexcited by the passing countryside and the castles and the sunset.