Contiki, Berlin, Prague and Vienna

I just finished my Contiki tour and arrived back in England yesterday. The twelve day tour was awesome! there were 36 of us with ages ranging from 19-38 but the majority of people were around 25. Me and about 10 people became good friends with some coming from australia, america, canada and south africa. There is so much i could say but it would take me hours to write it all out so I'll just stick with the highlights.

Berlin: I arrived here from Dresden on Saturday (april 25th) and went to the hotel. It was very nice and located in southwest berlin. to give you an idea, all the crazy german clubs and culture are closer to north east berlin. Anyway, that evening, we all met eachother, had dinner (a schnitzel) and then went out. The following day, we did a walking tour of the city, walked around for a bit and then went out to dinner as a group to a place where they served liters of Lowenbrau beer. Once again, I had several of these before becoming quite "sloshed" as my parents would say. The next day, we stopped in Dresden for lunch (i had already been here a few days earlier) on our way to Prague.
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Prague was great and I could talk about the history but that would be pretty boring. Instead I'll talk about Absinthe and "Night" Clubs. But before these, we all went out the first night to a club where the tables each had 4 taps of Pilsner Urquell Czech beer. They were damn cheap. .5L for just about 1.25 US Dollars. Obviously, I felt as though I was earning money, rather than spending it, so I indulged one again in the "piss" as my english cousins call it. The following day, I bought a bottle of Absinthe. It was green but I wasn't expecting great things seeing as I have already had it several times in the past. Sure enough, I was right. It tasted like Sadam Hussein's butthole, dingleberries and all! (sorry to be so graphic). me and a few of the guys each had a shot and said that was enough. so we stopped at a KFC to have some of the Colonel's delicious Czech Chicken before going to the best "Night" club in all of Prague. Now when I say Night club, I mean a club where ladies dance for men...get the picture? I swear, I have never seen such beautiful girls in a club like that ever. What was even better was that there were 53 of them. they easily outnumbered the men 3:1. Cover was only 200 crowns which is about $8US. Beers were about $4US and "services" were a bit more. I laughed my ass of because there were actually 2 types of girls in there. Strict dancers and girls for company. There was even a menu on the tables for what you wanted to order, whether it be a lap dance, massage, _____ (fill in the blank), or a "lesbi show!" I was very content on just admiring the girls and drinking. However, some people sitting at the table in front of us ordered a lesbi show. to say the least and to maintain decorum, it was very interesting. me and one of the australian guys went "walkabout" to see if the other clubs were better but we came back to the first one as it was the best. And that was prague. Cheap beer and beautiful women...if you want to pay for it.
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The Vienna stop was only for 1 day so we saw the sites and St. Stephen's Cathedral. Yes, I am a Saint in Austria and a King in Hungary (i'll explain about that later). The main highlight was watching the Arsenal vs. Manchester United Champions League semi finals the first night and the following day, having a schnitzel that was bigger than my plate. Jamie had recommended i go there so i took a few friends to the restaurant called Figelmueller. Best schnitzel i've had yet. We also went into the royal residences but not much time in vienna so not much to say.
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I'll write up about the second half of the trip later. Oh and i fixed the links to the last group of pictures