Spent xmas travelling, and was oh so greatful to get away fromt the host family for a while...
Started off in Hamburg and stayed with a member i'd met off a bodymod site,,he was sweet and bought me dinner and took me on the whole tourist thing through hamburg (which was absolutely freaking freezing and rainy!!).
Luckily there were enough stalls for mulled wine, and christmas markets for applewine and sweets to keep us warm:)
After two days i left for amsterdam...but now, i think i am the only person who goes to amsterdam and stays in a christian youth hostel to get started on an essay due in three weeks time?? (hey! its my first since i left school so i'm freakin gout a bit..)
But the i surely appreciated the no drugs/alcohol policy cos i had no absolute peace and quiet^^
the dorms were named after bible characters and i was invited to bible staudy,,,but this i could live with because the staff were friendly (i got free candy and xmas dinner^^) and the showers were clean:)
Next stop was Brussles. Now, although i was only gone for a week. I was absolutley broke, and by this time (four days in) i was pretty damn lonley. So, i decided coucsurfing was a goer!
Now, i wasn't really expecting any replies,,usually people like a weks notice, and it ws xmas day! but i had quite a few offers, which i was just plain stoked about, and took the couch closest to brussels, in Asse:POnly, cos it was xmas eve, obviously he couldnt meet me til late..like 11pm late..so i was wondering if he was gonna show, and our meeting point was at an old creepy church. I sat in front of some sleeping bums, and was relieved to have the company of the security guard who stood with me til rob arrived. Can't say how relieved i was when he showed up!(the pic is of my host Rob, haha hes trying to hide from my camera:P)
He was a real sweety and let me stay two nights there..(i'd only planned one but loved brussels too much!!)
So, while i was there in Brussles, I also took a side trip to Brugge, which is an absolute beauty of a town to vist! Plus i had exceptional weather^^ (look at that sky!!)
I think the best part of my trip there though, was my last evening! Not wanting to stay at robs for too long, also since he had another surfer coming, i was happy to recieve an eamil from a chick id met from another bodymod site, inviting me out with her and a group of couchsurfers.
They were all just so damn sweet! We went out to a techno club and although the music wsan't really my thing..the company made it great! I'd thought to leave in the morning by tram to the main train station to get on the IC, but then nico gave me a lift there and they all came with me to the train station, carried my bags bought me coffee and hung around til my train left!!I mean shit, i would never expect that of my closest friends let alone a bunch of strangers. So, yeah, it was rad to have them around^^
Aand finalyy (sorry can't be arsed flipping the pic as i have the wrong program open:P), my last stop was Köln! Another bodymod member i'd been chatting to offered to show me around the city (with me stinking like cigarette from teh club..and generally lokking like crap from having no sleep!). Needless to say, it was a great way to end my holidays:D and ralf and i spent the whole afternoon walking the city, chatting and drinking tea^^ The pic is the cake a friend of his gave us for free in one cafe..and damn was it goood:D
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