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Everywhere you go in Berlin there is street art covering the walls or anything else the taggers could reach. A free 'alternative' city tour is given every day leaving from underneath the TV Tower in Alexanderplatz so after getting ready and eating breakfast, I headed down there with Dylan, Ugo and a guy from Slovenia named Simon. Our tour guide Homer was originally from Holland and said that he lived an alternative life with an alternative girlfriend and an alternative dog! Right away he started giving us a history of street art in Berlin and showed us a book about some infamous street artists. We rode the buses and trains around for almost 4 hours visiting various alleyways and buildings that were better than any gallery I've visited. All along the way he would point out pieces by the artists we saw in the book at the beginning of the tour and various projects that people have worked on. My favorite was near the end of the tour when we visited a house that a guy had spent 6 months painting. When the tour ended, the four of us walked to the East Side Gallery. The longest surviving section of the Berlin Wall, it stretches for 1.3 kilometers and is covered with paintings by over 100 artists from all around the world. We walked the entire length of it and then caught the train back to the hostel. Aloha celebrated it's 2 year anniversary tonight so they moved everyone to the rooms upstairs for the night and opened up the lower story for a big party. Friends of the employees and people who had stayed at Aloha before came and soon they had beer pong going and people dancing in the room next door. This is my last night in Berlin and it was a great way to end my stay, spending it with all of the new friends I've made here. Everyone partied into the early morning until Arthur finally had to shut it down and send us to bed. A couple hours of sleep and then I'm catching a train bound for Prague!
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