Soon I will have been here one full week. Today was a bit of a recovery day and I used it to wait for FedEx; they were suppose to drop me a package today and I did not want to miss them. Well, they never showed. But it was a day to recoup nonetheless.
Yesterday I purchased a Monatekarte so I have full access to the S-Bahn, U-Bahn and buses that travel between and within areas A & B. These areas encompass the core of Berlin. Area C is for outlying areas which I doubt I will be going to very much and if I do I can purchase a ticket to cover that.
I spent the day testing it out. I went first to the Ku´damm had a lunch of Kartofellen Suppe und Bier and then went to Potsdamer Platz, a tech-business center that has sprung up on ground through which part of the wall had run. There in a Sony store I was able to purchase a USB plug for my video camera which will allow me to upload from the memory card thus emptying it to fill with more picture and/or video. After that I went to a remaining section of the wall but realized that eveing was not a good time to go there to video...morning light is much better. So, I shall return.
Returning back to the Ku´damm I found Bears; a bar filled with men and I hit it at Happy Hour. When you purchase a drink, you keep the receipt and then use it to get your second drink. The receipt was still good after Happy Hour ended at 2100 hrs so I was there until about 2200 hrs. I met three guys, all very nice: Mirkos, German; Jens, Chech; and Arthur, from NYC. The four of us kind of started talking with each other. Mirkos and Jens were very much wanting to speak in English but they indulged my efforts to speak German. Jens introduced me to Hemingways which were shooters, quite tasty, that we all drank together with the bartender. With those and the 6 half-liters of beer (I knew because I had receipts) it was slightly adventurous heading home on the S-Bahn. We said our auf wiedersehns to each other and made a date for Happy Hour next Mittwoch. Thank the gods I had a Monatekarte to get myself home.
Doing well in Berlin...check out photo album Flickr Berlin 5.3.2007...
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