if it makes any difference my brother and some mates spent the early hours of new year fighting co workers of mine at a house party *rolleyes*

it's kind of disheartening when you see how different the culture is considering its not that far away. the main reason i was "cultured and behaved" as my sister put it was because you cant get away with acting like a lout there because it's so out of place.

the only really drunk people i seen over there were tourists on the pub crawl i was on and even at the party people had maybe a beer or shared a bottle of wine between a group and i was getting weird looks for dirnking some red vodka crap and jaegermeister straight out of their bottles.


some cool things i did/saw:

i had snails for dinner one night was actually alot less disgusting than you'd imagine

i bought some weird flavoured chocolate for mrs jbj and my family. curry, chilli, beer, champagne and some brown one i picked up by accident i have absolutely no clue what it's supposed to be. the curry one went down like a lead balloon.

made a point of going up the reichstag dome since i hadnt done it when i was there in september. in retrospect i would have made an absolute fortune buskign there as the queue for it is massive all day long.

i went out to wannsee which probably won't mean much to folk who arent intot heir history that much but even though the conference house museum was shut for the holidays it was still a lovely place to see.

i got my passport stamped at checkpoint charlie which is kinda tacky but meh.

made my way into the wee hours of new years night after trhe party in a proper beer hall with oompa music, stein banging on the tables and all sorts.

finally i saw the mythical video for runaway sans music in previously mentioned beer hall. there's a good reason why they don't want anyone to see it. it's terrible even by 80s cock rock standards.