Day 18, Schumahcer's Return...

Day 18 was our second day in Berlin, today we planned to basically hit as much as we could as quickly as possible, starting with a tour early in the morning, which we missed... lol. We then moved on to the Pergaumon museum which houses a lot of the stuff on our classical studies leaving cert course, annoyingly it also tends to lend it out. So we seemed to miss a lot of the things we initially would have liked to see.

We then used our museum cards to just randomly stroll into another museum which was actually pretty good, I enjoyed it. After that museum I think we headed back to the hostel, did the standard super-market run, I bought 10 boxes of matches for 25 cent and we played poker with matchsticks, before some pool and then we decided to roll out to TV tower for around 10 pm.

Tv tower after dark is quite amazing, its a 200 m high observation deck with a view over the whole city. Its a tower similar to a chimney, but 196m up there is a massive globe. When the Russians built the tower in 1969 they had no real trouble, but when the globe arrived they didn't know how to put it on. So they had to hire some Swedes on the sly to get them to do it.

On the top of the tower we started playing a game, we started getting people to pose in photos with us, usually getting someone else to take the picture. We would do a number of poses and things, and the groups grew, people were laughing and clapping after pictures and things. So what we did next was get Lorcan to shoot a few pictures, then get people to change poses, while we recorded it. Banter to the max.

At around 1am we headed to the Reichstag and then Brandenbourg gate too. Was good.

It's also important to note I got some extremely significant news today, Michael Schumacher will make a shock F1 return in Valencia to replace the injured Filipe Massa. Schumacher is my ultimate hero, so he's back to dominate, one thing is for certain, I know where I will be on the 23rd of August.