DAY 18 - Berlin (Niki's Bday)

Sean picked out a place around the corner for breaky - everyone expect Meg joined as she was still feeling pretty unwell. Sean nailed breakfast, the food was tasty and the fruit side included a decent assortment of fresh fruits picked up from the market that morning.

We went to NENI Berlin for Niki's 30th lunch, a restaurant that looks over the Berlin Zoo. The window overlooking the zoo looks into the monkey and some type of big bird enclosures. After lunch, we spent a few hours in the adjoining bar, Monkey Bar. Everyone went back to the accom to get ready for the night. A few of us (Scott, Meg, Jez and Sean) tried to find somewhere to buy a cheeky bratwurst before heading out. After ending up at a roast chicken shop, we decided to cut our losses and head back to the accom by Bolt scooter.

Running slightly behind Zoe, Niki, Georgia, Lily, and Kat, we (Scott, Meg, and Sean jumped on another Bolt scooter to make up time). By this point Jez had caught up with Matt to head to a gig (which they didn't manage to get in to) and we were pushing to make the 8pm cut off at Birgit (as entry was €15 after 8pm). We made it with a minute to spare, but not before the chaos of trying to find somewhere we could park out scooters.

Birgit was a bar/club by the canels. It had a beer hall feel, a few interesting places to sit (chairs on a swing and a carousel you could spin). Once we figured out the beer token system, we sat down and enjoyed a few drinks and some pizza before having a dance on one of the two dance floors. At one point, Scott and Sean went to grab another drink from the bar and were thankfully advised by a French guy living in Germany that there was another bar inside. This turned out to be another dancefloor (techno stage) in amoung shipping pallets. We continued exploring this new indoor area and found another stage with house DJs.

Happy with our new discovery, we grabbed the group and headed to the house stage. It was almost as if it was meant to be with Great Southern Land coming on the second we walked into the room. After a few more hours of partying, we decided to leave. This venue honestly felt like a music festival inside of a bar.

Against our better judgement, we (Scott, Meg, Sean, Zoe, and Georgia) decided to try our luck getting into Kitkat. We were knocked back like almost everyone else in the line because of our white shoes (and presumably our lack of leather). Not to worry, we had finally found a bratwurst stall. Unfortunately, he was out of bratwurst (currywurst was all he had left).

With no other bar in sight, we called it a night in anticipation of our 4hr bus ride to Prague tomorrow.Read more