berlin wall and amsterdam canals
So far it was the highlight of this summer - visiting
both Berlin and Amsterdam in five days! My friend Dovile and I have been
planning this trip for a few months as it was supposed to be 'a journey of the
first times', which all of them were completed by the end:}
She has some relatives in Berlin who were
more than happy to give us a warm bed and other things we needed to make
ourselves comfortable. As they work in Lithuanian's embassy, we had to do some
stuff over there. And the rest was only free time which helped us to enjoy
Germany's capital! The city itself was just incredible, looking as it was built
for youth - street art, bars, cafes, restaurants, small streets, architecture,
Berlin wall - everything had the great vibes. Unfortunately, we did not enjoy
local people that much or let's say that local people did not enjoy our visit
in Germany. The kindest guy we met and have been talking the whole evening was
a bartender from Scotland who had his very first shift in the bar and have been
living in a country for 8 months without speaking German!
After two days in Berlin, we put our
backpacks on, embraced ourselves and went on the road to hitchhike towards
Amsterdam. It was really competitive day - there were so many hitchhikers going
to the same direction! Spending two hours in the sun and asking people in the
petrol station if they are travelling towards Holland, we found two guys who
gave us a ride for more than 6 hours while we get off only few kilometres away
from Netherlands. After we stopped an old Polish truck driver, then with two French
girls (who actually started their journey from the same spot in Berlina as we
did) reached Holland, while being only few hours away from Amsterdam.
Unfortunately it was getting dark already and as we weren’t in the petrol
station, no one was stopping their cars so we decided to walk to the nearest
one. The police car stopped us after half an hour as they were no petrol
stations in the area. As a policeman guided us to walk towards the train
station, which was an hour away, we stopped a car, took a train to Amsterdam
and finally reached our destination, both tired and both filled with
adventurous day.
Exploring streets of Amsterdam was not a new thing to
us as we both have visited the city before but it’s always so amazing! It’s a
must to get lost in between those romantic canals and tiny streets, try as many
beers as possible in different bars and connect with the locals!
Getting back to those first times, both of us
hitchhiked abroad for the first time, stayed in the hostel with the strangers (our
strangers were too strange so we don’t have any fascinating experience of it)
and try staying with someone we’ve found on Couchsurfing!