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it must have been the black therma whatsit beanie my sister gave me that I wearing lol ..it was only the one trip, and was too much of a wussie to stay longer, well uni was starting again , and got another passport that is still blank and only has a few years left on it. there were lots of woulda coulda shouldas .. as in 15years before met a girl in pub in aust, she wanted me to work at her parents pub in England, I just had no concept of doing it, and didn't. just hung around in adelaide doing nothing, der.
yeah lots memories re trip, why didnt I go to Prague for wknd with group I initially went with? well cos was sick of them and preferred roaming around Berlin in dark talking to strangers going to 'nick cave pub' well it was crap/scary lol, meeting people who drove me around until I asked self what's their interest in me and decide that they were gay and meant me no good lol
loved the food, loved the weather, got a message from some cousin had never heard of and ended up taking train to place never heard of and staying with her *ick of a partner who used to report to her every night on the phone and barely tolerated me ..I told him just before I left after getting abandoned at some hillbilly pub and hearing bits and pieces he was saying to his mates about me. Got my point across. You don't like me, I dont like you, lets just deal with it in best way possible. had the best night when met my cousin, partner got jealy and disappeared, that didnt help, but we got on like a house on fire re her.
Shes a Law Phd now doing some human rights thing, lost contact.
Stayed with my out there auntie who gave me some white wine that she opened prob a year ago, wanted to spit it out, just smiled. Met uncle didnt get on with, loooked too much like my father lol, they had a big dinner with other rels, and just turned into a backstab session, so peter from other side of world put his 4 drink min two cents worth in haha lol
stayed with another auntie in another town, gave her big hints I wanted to go to pub as her kids were both working,oh, you cant do that! so she walked me down to the soccer club and left me there. Cousin had put a tab on for Tab lol , it got a hiding, me talking to strangers in German . Again,Had been there for nearly 2 months so I was even thinking in German. they went and found me an English guy who had been there for 20 years, I kept talking in German, had to make an a real effort to speak English, took a few minutes. Not saying my German was ever that good, but I sounded like a German apparently, so people would get surpised when they found holes in my vocab/grammar lol
at aunts they kept a carton of beer in the garage on floor, no fridge necess der lol well was february by then, sheese seems like did so much now, as opposed to what have done since. still other bits, saw an East German prison/torture chamber, went to lots of museums with model roman cities, stolen persian treasure etc I did like coming home from language school in first part of trip, to get pork and cabbage kebab and a sixpack, then go to local bar if felt in mood, or wandering around berlin by foot or train by myself. anyhoo, memories, got me going, took my mind off achey bod. Thanks for your thoughts @Former-Member will get thru this crapola next 2 or so days, going to have to 'game' it and lots paracetamol, etc