Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Berlin: Alexanderplatz

Today my friend Paul arrived in Berlin. I met him at the Alexanderplatz train station in the eastside of the city, shortly after noon.

The weather's been quite hot here, and today was no exception. Pretty much the first thing we did upon meeting was look for a cool place to watch the Korea - Togo game. After looking around for a few hours, the best place we came up with was a bowling joint. Not exactly the atmosphere we were looking for, but hey, ya can't always be picky.

Afterwards, we took the S-Bahn towards the downtown core, where we walked around for a while, inhaling the festive atmosphere. Croatian fans were everywhere, celebrating their nation's presence at the WM. For dinner we found ourselves a place with a nice ambience, a giant screen showing the Brasil - Croatia game, and there we ate a nice dinner.

German beer is super. I don't know what we're drinking in Canada, but it ain't beer. I feel sorry for the yanks, because their beer's even worse than ours.

I got home late. Tired. Sticky. Exhausted.

Today's WM scores:
Korea 2 - Togo 1
France 0 - Switzerland 0
Brasil 1 - Croatia 0

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