over budget in berlin!!!

ok getting out of prague was interesting to say something of it.after following numerous streets in cobblestones(something which my bike really doesnt like) and going up and down hill for what seemed like an eternity we evetually made it to the city outskirts where we soon came head on with the czech versions of cycle paths.......not exactly what i would call beneficairy to the state of our well used bicycles.so back onto the roads and we head along the hills and out of the surrounding area doing what we do best and cycle into a head wind, somethings never change.....
the campsite we got to really was just a haven for the dutch and the german im not kidding but if you wanted to try and be a good camper i suggest you either kidnap one of them or just tag along cus no one knows how to camp like these guys do, and in the middle of nowhere in the czech republic you would think that german and english might be useful but no english here has been replaced by DUTCH!!!!they all speak it and all the signs are in it too as well as german and czech of course but no english, im not one to moan about such things but how many "e"s and "o"s do you want in one word!!!!
heading out from there we break past our original destination and make a rather adventurous plan to try to get to dresden that day but after the rain and a rather long stop, shane gave all his change away to a girl selling ice cream only to realise that he still needed some to go and get water from the shop we were perched outside....well done.....we did make it to the outskirts of dresden but at that point had offically ran out of juice so even after all of shanes persuading and trying to feed me sugary stuff i only just managed to make it to a campsite just outside only to be confronted by a huge group of what must either be school kids or scouts making as much noise as possible and causing havoc in the surrounding area.as we had eaten and it was still light we decided to get our frisbee groove on and show the new guys what we were made of but the next morning i did regret that decision as my chest and arms ached from playing for about 2 hours straight.that does seem to be one of the major problems of our trip at the moment as we get to campsites but as the days are so long we have to doss about untill about 10 so we can actually sleep and when i say sleep i mean just bake in the heat of the tent!!!and believe me it gets damned hot in there!!!!
so leaving this day we found ourselves a day ahead of our plan so we set out to continue as normal to the next campsite when it happens....we think the combination of the heat and the long day before just got to him but shane ran out of juice as well, at 11 oclock!!!so after a little rejuvination of the food varitey and stopping to get some more inner tubes for my bike, he and i both felt up to a good day cycling but then we encountered the hill, now after cyclign through the alps you think a little 8% hill for about 2km wouldnt be that bad but oh no we got to the top turned to each other and suggested, "next campsite?"
now im not sure if it was a good idea or not to go to this campsite but it was close to where we were and had a huge expanse for us to frollock in or whatever, but then of course being who we are we sunbathed for a bit and then got the boredom reliever out, FRISBEE!!!!but this time we had alot of trees around so after hitting them continuously we invented a new game based on the rules of headers and volleys with trees being the goal posts.......however after variating the game a little i ended up clipping the trees quite alot to try and get it around him.....and ended up eventually snapping it in half as it clattered into a tree just out of shanes reach......whoops.but never to fear after ice cream we sat and watched some rather interesting takes on volleyball and i repaired it with gaffer tape!!!!yes it has been the solution to all of our major repair problems so far, well an extent of them anyways.....to while away the evening we went down to the lake(which is common place in nearly every campsite in germany) and ate crisps and drank water to get ready for the day ahead of us.now as we are in germany i have heard many fables about the way they bath in the sea, mostly naked so i wasnt suprised to see a few wandering about on one of the campsite beaches but it was that evening when we saw what can only be described as a BIG woman get into the far end of the lake(and when i say big i mean me and shane had seen her earlier,much to our distaste, sunbathing topless and the girl had more wings on her than a KFC bargain bucket, i mean she was BIG).but the worst thing about seeing this was seeing her bottom halfs go flying over her hed as she galloped into the lake....not a nice sight and with them in our direct sight and nowhere to turn we tryed to divert our attention but with some kind of morbid curiosity we kept on looking back to see the next part which was a man about the size of shane run into the water behind her but he was clothed, well at least untill she flipped him over like a pancake and removed his bottoms too so now me and shane are sitting there eating crisps and having to see this rather grotescque display in front of us.and im not being harsh with that comment as they then proceeded to have sex in the lake right in front of us......now we became disturbed......and i mean savage garden "truely madly deeply" disturbed!!!!to prevent us throwing up we decided it would be a good time to leave but wanting to avoid the passionate nudists we took the long route around the campsite...stuff that nightmares are made out of right.
leaving that place and hopefully the mental scarring behind we continued on towards falkenberg, nice enough place with a nice enough campsite and a great lake that i managed to complete my furthest achievement in the water, swimming from one side to the other without stopping!!!i think it must have been about 500 mts but shane says it was like a small puddle.i dont care im happy!!!
the next day started out really well but soon started to challenge the worst day in the world title....puncture in the middle of nowhere....not a problem ive had a few by now but i then made the mistake of letting shane try and fix it and when i mean try i mean he bodged it up completely and didnt even mention it untill we eventually got to a shop, and when i say eventually i mean we had to walk about 1km to the next small town and beg a bis driver to let us on with bikes and take us to the town we had just been through.....thankgod he did otherwise it would have been one hell of a walk back!!!getting back to the shop and having a chat with the guy there we both agreed that my back wheel was screwed in every which way after the amoutn of punctures and buckled times the rim had finally given in and bent in so as it would continue nipping any tube put into it as was my problem.......so after extensively searching the shop he came back with the only wheel my size in the whole shop!!!and as its is so good i ended up saying to him how much for both wheels and as it was only 15 euro extra i went for it(having previously borken my front dinamo that day as in snapped it completely off the frame whilst putting my bike down so therefore not having anything to keep it for). so 100 euro lighter i got another couple of tubes for my new tyre(the old ones i brought turned out not to be the right size at all even though they said that they were!!!!so making a repair impossible)and just headed to the train station to make our distance that day.stung for 25 euro on the train and shanes panniers falling off again we decided that we should just get to the campsite as quickly as possible....but that being easier said than done it being another 2 hours untill we eventually found it after cycling through the outskirts of berlin and finding numerous ways to slow us down one being more cobbles!!!!!
however after a bottle of cherry wine for me and a few wiessbeers for him we soon relaxed and contemplated the next day of sightseeing.but just to make it all the more interesting shane spotted a huge storm across yes another lake and said dont worry its going past us.however at 4 in the morning he was proven wrong with the largest and most violent storm i had ever witnessed especially whilst in a tent so after scrabbling around to get our things in the dry quickly we just lay there and watched it play out (i mean watched it through the tent as we could see the lightning!!)
sp here in an internet cafe feeling the effects of a bottle of wine and not alot of sleep we are now going to head off to some other place to see someting esle as is our way of sightseeing(if its pointing out on the map it must mean something)
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