Weekend Travels Part 4: Berlin
Last weekend I went to BERLIN! We should all take a moment to thank Abbie, whose excellent idea it was to go and see Laura Marling in concert on the Saturday night. This motivated us to schedule the weekend in Berlin which an amazing seven of the eight of us in our house next year were able to attend. I was lucky in that I had the second shortest journey; it only takes two and a half hours or so to get to Berlin from Chemnitz. Poor Dan drew the short straw; his coach from Freiburg to Berlin took eleven hours. GOD. Anyway, after a certain amount of organisation and quite a lot more faffing around and ignoring the fact that we actually had to arrange something at some point, astonishingly all seven of us made it to Berlin by Friday evening. Five of us shared an Airbnb in Schö neberg (again, found by Abbie - THANK YOU) which was a lovely first experience of this setup for me. Airbnb allows people to rent out their rooms for a night, several nights, or an extended period of time, b...