I just got back from Berlin earlier this week. It feels pretty weird because we've gone full circle, Berlin was the first ever place I visited him, and I really hope for the time being it's the last for a while. I remember we only had two nights together, and the second one we stopped in this really weird hotel, the room was like an old school dormitry, the ceiling was so high, and it had about 5 single beds in. We pushed two up together and fell asleep holding hands, and I just kept thinking stay awake, stay awake, try and stay awake, because I desperatly didn't want to say goodbye again.
Two years have passed and I'm still packing my little suitcase and taking myself off to see him. I always get soso excited when I get there and I'm sat in a hotel waiting for him, but I always get soso sad when I have to leave him. It's been amazing seeing all these places over the past two years, and I'm very grateful that I've had the chance to travel all over Europe but I miss him terribly and I just want him to come home now.
On a happier note Berlin is pretty cool. I would definately reccomend it. We didn't have enough time to explore though. I want to go back with Richard in Summer some time, it's a really interesting city.
I like all the art but Richard likes all the stuffy old history. I managed to get to a gallery the 'Hamburger Bahnhoff', which is an old converted train station and came on recomendation from my tutor at Uni, and I must say I don't really like visiting galleries but this had some amazing art, I saw some Daniel Richter paintings in the flesh which was exciting, and there was a brilliant exhibition on my an artist called Walter Ford, who I've never heard of before but whose work was strikingly relevent to my own. Only grumble was that an exhibition including Anselm Keiffer and Andy Warhol amongst others was closed due to maintenence. Just my luck!
Apart from that Monday it was really sunny and warm so me and Rich just had a wander round the city looking at various touristy things, and he got me a panda and a snowglobe because he is a beaut boyfriend! We went to look at the East side gallery, which is a stretch of the Berlin wall that people have painted murals on, but if I'm honest it was pretty shit! We had an icecream and walked for what felt like millesss in the sun. I complained a LOT about my new shoes. Then we went for a sweet Mexican, and I ate more than I thought was physically possible. Berlin has some amazing shops aswell which is pretty crap when you have no money! I really want to go back one year with Cookie when it's summer and he doesn't have to work.
I absolutly hated leaving Rich again, got another month ahead withought seeing him.
These are some photos I took of the city.
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