Hazel jodido de la fuente

Friday 20. Vigo - Kiel.

Raquelita (little Rachel), Lorena and me took the last bus of the day to O porto, and there in the midnight we had to takek a flight to Hamburg. As the bus arrived to the airport many hours before the flight time we used the time to go for a walk, have dinner, read, try to sleep...

Going for a walk in a so spacious, empty and dark-light building makes you think in important things of your life. In one of those walks i found the song of the trip (almost for me)


The most important thing of the flight was that it was the first time of Raquelita (you like it, dont say no), the gps and the free food.

In the day and with a cloud in our minds we waited for our luggage in the airport of Hamburg. Been there i thought i saw Aimar out, waiting for us. Impossible, he must to wait for us in Kiel and we still had to go there by bus... I dont know if i really saw him or not but he was there, it was a nice surprise. In the end he played with me to avoid me to make photos of the reunion of the couple.


Saturday 21. Hallo Kiel!

Out first contact with Kiel was asking and having a breakfast in the café of the station. It was a show: our voices was the only ones that was heard in the café and we made a big mess with the cups and buns.

Lorena saying loud:

- ¡¿Where is the milk?!
- Next to you.

We went to sleep. Raquelita and Aimar went to his room and me and Lorena went to the Georgia's room (a greek friend of Aimar) in a different flat. There is no pillow or sheet, but we were too sleepy to make it worth.

In the evening we went for a walk in the seaport of Kiel. We wanted to go a big top in the other side of the fiord because there were the friend of Aimar having fun, which we dont know yet.

This is what i first saw when i enter the big top... The Kieler Woche begins!


2 minutes after we were mixed in the people of Aimar, everybody dancing in the top of the benchs with a mug of beer of one liter in the hand and surrounded by happy german people. There isn't better sport.


Sunday 22. Forest, match and nacht café.

We went to go for a walk in a tipical german forest. The weather was muggy and the sky became dark... but its better to let "Hazel jodido de la fuente" (a joke with my nickname) to tell the story:





After of this hard download of rain the weather was very nice. We went to a bridge to see a ship canal that the german people built to the fiord and after that we went back to the center of Kiel to see the match Spain - Italy with some friends of Aimar, most of them italian people. I remember names like Alice (funny person: she likes "chorritos", "ñaña ñañaña!") and Mauro, the Costa Rican. Very nice people, really.

This night we wanted party. 4 brave people: Lorena, me, Moncho (the mexican) and the guy from Granada. Whisky with cola on the way to a pub: the Nacht café. A cool place, electronic music and a not too expensive drinking, been in Germany (they pay you if you give back them the bottles). Perfect, now we have a pub for party!!!

Coming back this night.. its great





Monday 23 and tuesday 24, Kiel.

Georgia, the owner of "our" room come back to Kiel so we moved to the Aimar's room. To sleep the first night in his room with the complete kit we had to go to Ikea. Although while we were arriving to home after a day of walking in the fiord we thought that nothing was missing, in the last moment the most important thing was missing: the mattress.
Lorena never thought that she can sleep so well in the floor.

We spent those two days going for walks and in party nights with the guys. We were kieler people!


Wednesday 25. Strande.

We woke up soon to go to a little town called Strande (from the german Strand, beach), ouside from the fiord. Indeed the north of germany is a good place to make a boat race! it was very windy but we saw the boat races, windsurf far away.. and the town, which was small but with many tipical houses of this part of Germany. It was here when Lorena had the good idea about me and her going to to Berlin on the weekend and giving a bit of time to Aimar and Raquelita, i think that everybody like this idea.

In the evening we went with the canary people and the other guys to see the match Germany - Turkey, that we felt as we were true german people, screaming for happines in the end. After the match the atmosphere and the alcohol in blood was very good for going out for party. What a pity that we had to come back to home soon! but the next day there was something big waiting for us.


Thursday 26, Hamburg.

We woke up very soon (again!) to take the train. Already in Hamburg we went out from the train station (amazing) and went to the city hall through Mönckebergstraße, a very wide and beatiful street.



One of the most beautiful pictures of the trip was in a yard inside the city hall. A fountain with a female statue on the top and the facade of the building in the background... Hamburg!

We eat in one of the lakes of the city. The ducks wanted sandwich and we wanted duck a l'orange. In the end there was no deal but at least we can take a break, the trip was taking its toll to the feet and legs.

After going for a long walk in the port (one of the most important of the world) we visited the church of saint Nicholas (St.-Nikolai-Kirche). Only the tower was left.
I have to say that in our trip we can see the shadow of the war many times, but it was in this moment when we can feel it stronger. Hamburg, which should had plenty of life and activities was devastated by the allied air force. Reason: ask the bombs.

We were impressed while visiting Hamburg and exhausted in the end. Its a must-see city.

In the night we repeated the ritual of going out, drinking and having fun!


Saturday 28. Berlin, first part.

After spending the night without sleeping, Lorena and me run to the train station to take a train that went to Berlin, as planned. We got confussed in the Ostkreuz station going from the U (U-Bahn or subway) to the S (S-Bahn or metropolitan train) because in teory it was the same station but in were in different buildings and after that, in the hostel, they didn't find our reservation. It doesn't matter, it is still midday and we are ready.

We began the tour arriving to the museums' island through the bridge of the Bodestraße street. We wanted to see the egyptian museum (Museumsinsel), specially the nefertiti's bust, a beauty canon with more than 3300 years! We sat down in the stairs contemplating the fabulous square and the evangelist cathedral of Berlin (Berliner Dom) in the left while we were hearing a female and young flautist, we dont gave her lot of money but many applauses.

We stand up and covered the central island of the Unter den Linden street (one of the most important streets of Berlin) to the Brandemburg Gate, which was crossed by the Berlin wall. We were frisked to be allowed to pass the gate like the old checkpoint charlie because there was a little party for the final of the next day. At this another part of the street it changes of name, now its called Straße des 17 Juni and its surrounded by a forest called Tiergarten with a width of about 500 meters at each side. The traffic was not allowed and it seemed like there was another party at the end of the street. So there we went. Finally it was a gay party next to the Victory Column (Siegessäule). Everything was different, the football party, the holes of bullets in the Victory Column and the gay party... It's Berlin!


Lorena and me took the subway to a very expensive neighborhood with many terraces with candles and 5 stars hotels. While it was getting dark we sat down to talk in a stair of a church, it was great.

After dinner we tried to find somewhere to go for party where a drink were no more than 10 €. We were recommended to go to Alexanderplatz but there we saw only a pub and it was not very good so we changed the plans and saw the square at night with the subway station and the TV aerials (Fernsehturm).


Sunday 29. Berlin, second part.

As it was our last day in Berlin and we had to go out from the hostel we leave the bag in the train station to avoid carrying it.

We wanted a view with perspective of Berlin so que went up to the TV aerial, the second tallest building of Europe. We had a view of bird of the center, including the route of the previous day: from the museums' island to Victory Column. Impressive.

The day was not enough and the Berlin Wall had been waiting for us too much. The most interesting zone of the wall to see is the East side gallery, a piece of more than 1 kilometer painted by artits from all the world.

In the end of the gallery there was the Ostbahnhof station. As we had not much time we take the subway to the Hauptbahnhof to see the german parliament (Reichstag) with the cupola.



After laughing a lot dubbing conversations from other people to spanish at the roof of the parliament, we decided to go out to lay in the grass and take out our shoes to take a break. How comfortable is to feel the freash grass after so much walking!! After lot of laughs it was time to take the train to go back to Kiel.

Berlin is special.


Monday 30. Kiel - Vigo.

We arrive to Kiel just in time for going out one last night. Bittersweet taste. We woke up soon to take the flight to Vigo, we took the luggage and said goodbye to Aimar and out life in Germany, in where we got used to live.

While a return trip like this you reconsider your life. I suppose that with the day by day we got used with the short dimensions of our own world and forget the possibilities out there. Something like if the only way to realise how little is your house is going out. It seems on the contrary, right?

Aimar, Raquelita, Lorena, Barbara, Irene, Cristina, Rios, Luis, Iria, Moncho, Alice, Anika, Mauro... THANK YOU ALL!!!