This will be my last entry. And actually I'm kinda mostly writing it so the map on this website will make a full circle back to Berlin. I actually haven't really even gone back to Berlin, I'm actually in Dresden. There were two main reasons for this. The most important was to catch up with Genaro and Yavus from my German class that I took way back at the start of this trip (a class that really only ended up being worth it because of the friends I made). The other...

So Wednesday was probably the best day so far. I went to Museum Island, but this time I was prepared. I went right around 10am when they open, and I had discovered that you can actually buy a day ticket for every museum from any museum. Meaning you don't need to line up at the ticket booth or the popular museums, you can just go to the least popular museum, buy a ticket and skip the lines at all the others. Judging by the lines at the main ticket booth, most peop...

The next couple of days ended up being a little lazy. On Tuesday I went to Museum Island at about noon. All the lines were absolutely huge, so I decided I would look online and conceive a better plan to tackle this. In the end the only thing I did was visit the cathedral, which itself was quite amazing. I've always loved the architecture of old cathedrals, and this was no exception. There was even access right up to the dome where you could walk around on the ou...

It's been an interesting first few days. Quite a learning experience. As much about myself as about travelling solo. Turns out meeting new people and just hooking up and seeing the sights together isn't nearly as easy as I was hoping it would be. And so far, sight-seeing alone probably hasn't been as much fun as with other people. Regardless, I've still seen some cool stuff, and there's still so much more ahead of me. The first day was basically a write-off. I l...