I just thought I`d let you all know there are more photos up, a whole new Central Park section and the Manhattan photos have been added to extensively.

I have discovered that raspberries are a whole new world of delicious in this hemisphere. I have never tasted raspberries so good, both in the States and Germany. I may have to move to the Northern hemisphere just so I can eat them whenever I want. The ones we have in Australia are horrible bland tart little things compared to their Northern cousins. I guess cold snowy places have their worth after all! I have vowed to eat them daily while I am here, but maybe not as many as yesterday when I gave myself a stomach ache. Raspberries; worth the plane ticket. Oh and all the stone fruit is still around being the end of summer and all, it is amazing also. Australians are better at stone fruit then berries, but not - from what I hear - so plentiful after the Golbourn Valley disaster.

Many exciting stories of silliness in strange lands coming, too hungover to write about anything other then fruit. Off to Prague tomorrow, looking forward to absinthe and stupidly cheap beer. Goodbye Oranienburgerstraße, it has been excellent, you will always hold a place in my liver.

Ok, thanks to some good tips from Bizarro, last night I went out and found the Berlin I had been loking for!! I went to the awesome squats and met some great people and had a blast. Friday I am off to a party with some new friends, and they have hooked me up for this tour thing tomorrow, but it has started to rain so we will see what happens. I now also have lots of ideas thanks to Bsharp, cheers darlng will check it out and let you know how it goes.

I discovered the beautiful bits of Berlin, that they had been hiding from me. My poilcy of wandering aimlessly (with map in bag for when I get completely lost) paid off yesterday and I found meself some lovely things to look at. I am a bit museum/art galleried out for the moment but if I want to enrage myself while being inspired then I can go and check out the Guggenheim and the Egyptian Gallery as I now know where they are.

I think the hatred of Berlin stemmed from being sad and suddenly isolated after having such an awesome time in America and effortlessly finding like minded people and having such an amazing time (Burning Man, Dead Kennedys etc). This time of year kind of sucks for me and finding myself on my own in a non-english speaking country was a shock to the system. You all know I am a social butterfly (or maybe moth as I tend to go out more at night) and it was - for the first time on this trip - hard to meet people. All sorted now, I know where to go and I have made friends so I am a much happier chicken!

Apologies Berlin I judged you too soon! I am glad we made up and I think we are giong to get along famously from now on.

I arrived in Berlin four days ago and despite the very lovely tran trip from Frankfurt, I hate it here! The train went through beautiful picturesque countryside, very pretty. It was also impressively fast travelling on average 250kms an hour and clean and cool. Berling public transport rocks, it is easy to use, comprehensive and relatively cheap.

Berlin is ugly and rude. I do not like it here at all. It is not helped by staying in the Greenpeace apartment, great for my budget but nót so good for meeting people. It is wonderful to have access to real food again. good bread, which does not exist in America apart from bagels. Cheap beer which is always grand! The beer situation is one of the things that has helped me put on heaps of weight in America (that and living on crap food for long streches of time) but hopefully access to reasonably priced tasty fruit, vegetables and food in general will help all that!

Germany is experiencing its hottest September on record, so despite bringing thermals and buying warm stuff I am sweltering in 30 degree heat and wishing I had access to a Sydney beach or any beach for that matter. I have been assured by  the lying weather site that it will get cooler soon but I have stopped believig them. It is nice to be warm, but I did expect a Eurpoean Autumn.

So if anyone can suggest somewhere on Berlin that I should go please do. I am going to leave for Prague ASAP so make it snappy. Off to do a bike trip where the wall used to be.