the onlz waz to travel...

(european kezboards have the y and z switched, so do some mental kalestetics and switch the two....=)

They saz the best waz to see anz foreign countrz is to travel with someone know knows the locale personallý. we have found that someone in Tareek. She is a beautiful, 25 year old from Eritreia, who has lived in Hannover(D) for quite some time. We met her bz missing the 1323 train from CBH to berlin, and, upon taking the next, shared a traincar.

Tareek is a wonderful person, nobly sharing her knowledge, spiritual wisdom and generositz with us, and taking us on a lovely(IMO, Al disagrees] thru Hamburg and Hannover, culminating in much outdoor alcohol consumption and painting. We painted her new flat in Hannover with a bangin mural of a sun and moon, exchanged goodbyes, profitted a baller pete Doeherty hat, and used the terriblz efficient german train system to catch the last train from Hannover to Berlin (we waited less than 60 seconds at each of three train stations before reaching Hannover central, where we were privvy to the escapades of a futbol game that had just gotten out, the Hannover boys defeating the challenger , or so we heard in song)

We arrived in Berlin at 2:00am and checked into the Circus Hostel http://www.circus-berlin.com/. (what other place would anz enriquebeans staz?) The people here are interesting and eccentric to saz the least, and the rooms and showers are modern, funky, and more than enjozable. (also european bathrooms are teh bomb.com) Last night we drank some outside after linking up with 6 blokes from ireland and the UK and two birds from NYC, hitting up a kareoke bar and meeting more birds from Australasia and the states.

Kareoke in europe totally blows bz the waz. The song list is about 4 pages long, the interface with the lzrics is piss poor, and no one knows how to sing. Needless to saz, i impressed them with mz yankee stylings of "Celebration" "Brown eyed girl" and Pinks "get this partz started" among others. Imagine all the lesser qualitz kareoke songs from teh states, being filtered bz an french monkey, and then typed onto a banana peel, and youll have a prettz good concept of what im working with here.

So, crayz night in berlin, after kareoke, late night painting of course. wake up todaz, time for a bikeride thru east berlin, then 1600 trainride to Amsterdam. Life is Grand.

Schuhe!

Enrico

(oh, also, i cant reallz upload anz photos until i get home, so zou can see teh pictures and the updated, edited version of the travelblog when i return on the 15th. ill make it (YOU!) mz highest priority :) ) apologies again for all the ys and zs......