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Trip planning is making my head hurt!
I've spent most of the last two days when I wasn't at work or making dinner or washing dishes doing research for our trip. I've got the Berlin portion pretty well planned out, with a hotel booked and everything! It's here. I booked us a private room with a toilet and shower for two nights, giving us three days to explore Berlin. I've got the proposed itinerary all drawn up and I even printed out maps of the different parts of the city with the itinerary items all marked on it.
Berlin is pretty much handled.
We arrive in Hamburg at 11:30 or so the morning of May 23rd. My dear friend Caroline is going to pick us up and bring us to her house, where she predicts we will sleep until well into the afternoon on the 24th. So here's where things get crazy: do we hang out at her place and just chill a little, or do we head back into Hamburg to explore? I would really like to see the Spice Museum. And of course the Reeperbahn, but there's not much point in doing that till night time. So, do we head into the city in the evening, book a room in a hostel, party down, and then get up early in the morning to check out the fishmarket? Or do we just skip Hamburg, spend more time with Caroline, and then head to Berlin? Argh.
I'm pretty much decided that we will take the bus from Hamburg to Berlin---it's way cheaper and only takes about 3 hours. So that's figured out.
The really brain splitting part is figuring out how/if to go to Stockholm. There are cheap flights, but they get in at 11:30pm. Hostels in Stockholm are kind of expensive if you aren't a member of the youth hostel brigade or whathaveyou.
I haven't found much I REALLY want to do or see in Stockholm, apart from the Hare Krishna restaurant which is supposed to be a good one. Then there's the ordeal of getting from Stockholm to Kalmar for the wedding, which is about 5 hours by bus. Or less by expensive train. Booking in to the wedding hotel is going to be pricey as well, but it seems like it's not much pricier than hostels. And plus, it's the Freemason Hotel--no porn allowed! Ha.
We've already got our return to Hamburg from Kalmar tickets--they were expensive. The whole Sweden part of the trip is turning out to be expensive and mind boggling. But, as the whole reason we're going is to attend a wedding---we've got to work it out. Cross your fingers for me.
I'm going to bed now.....more research tomorrow after work.
Trip planning is making my head hurt!
I've spent most of the last two days when I wasn't at work or making dinner or washing dishes doing research for our trip. I've got the Berlin portion pretty well planned out, with a hotel booked and everything! It's here. I booked us a private room with a toilet and shower for two nights, giving us three days to explore Berlin. I've got the proposed itinerary all drawn up and I even printed out maps of the different parts of the city with the itinerary items all marked on it.
Berlin is pretty much handled.
We arrive in Hamburg at 11:30 or so the morning of May 23rd. My dear friend Caroline is going to pick us up and bring us to her house, where she predicts we will sleep until well into the afternoon on the 24th. So here's where things get crazy: do we hang out at her place and just chill a little, or do we head back into Hamburg to explore? I would really like to see the Spice Museum. And of course the Reeperbahn, but there's not much point in doing that till night time. So, do we head into the city in the evening, book a room in a hostel, party down, and then get up early in the morning to check out the fishmarket? Or do we just skip Hamburg, spend more time with Caroline, and then head to Berlin? Argh.
I'm pretty much decided that we will take the bus from Hamburg to Berlin---it's way cheaper and only takes about 3 hours. So that's figured out.
The really brain splitting part is figuring out how/if to go to Stockholm. There are cheap flights, but they get in at 11:30pm. Hostels in Stockholm are kind of expensive if you aren't a member of the youth hostel brigade or whathaveyou.
I haven't found much I REALLY want to do or see in Stockholm, apart from the Hare Krishna restaurant which is supposed to be a good one. Then there's the ordeal of getting from Stockholm to Kalmar for the wedding, which is about 5 hours by bus. Or less by expensive train. Booking in to the wedding hotel is going to be pricey as well, but it seems like it's not much pricier than hostels. And plus, it's the Freemason Hotel--no porn allowed! Ha.
We've already got our return to Hamburg from Kalmar tickets--they were expensive. The whole Sweden part of the trip is turning out to be expensive and mind boggling. But, as the whole reason we're going is to attend a wedding---we've got to work it out. Cross your fingers for me.
I'm going to bed now.....more research tomorrow after work.
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