Murgleiter - Etappe 3 16/05/2015

Today I went hiking again. With the hiking group from the first trip we decided to do another trip. At first hour in the morning the sky was a bit cloudy but afterwards the sun came out so we end out having a sunny nice day.

The track was more or less the same length of the first one but much steeper so it was a harder journey. However the weather was nicer this time so we didn't felt that extra effort that much.

We meet at 8.45 at the Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof and we took the S41 tram till Forbach. This town is situated in the lower part of the valley so once there we started heading to the mountain. For some reaseon people were selling cheap cakes in the street.

As the town is small in not to much time we where already in the midle of the forest. As usually, nice green views together with step slopes.

After walking for some hours we reached a dam, the Schwarzenbachtalsperer. It was build in 1926 and has been drained several time during history due to wars. The last drain was done in 1997.

We ate at the base of the damm, a really nice and relaxing place. After this we keep walking, this time down the hill. At the lowest point we found river with some road going close to it. As the road has a lot of curves it's full of motorbikers enjoying the track. 

 As we got lost before getting to destination we did an extra visit to Stuhlberg which was not planned. However the trip only got 1km longer, so not that bad after all. The trip ended in Schönrhünzach, a really small town where we took the tram and went back home.

Berlin 08/05/2015

This weekend I went to Berlin. At 12 a.m we meet in Karlsruhe, took some food from the supermarket and started our trip. The journey from Kalrsruhe to Berlin is quite long, around 740km.
This huge distance, traffic, and the fact that the "Polizei" make us stop for 45 min to check our ID while we where in the autobahn , made the journey last around 11 hours.

Once in Berlín we went to our hostel near Warchauer, eat some kebab and went to a club called Matrix.

Next day we took the S-bahn to Alexanderplatz. As the trains in Germany were doing a strike it took quite a long time as the train frequency was slow. From Alexanderplatz we walked to Brandemburgtur and then to the Holocaust memorial. There we ate some pizza.

After eating we visited the Reichtag, only from the outside as we didn't have any booked tickets, and to finish the day we walked along the eastside gallery.

In the night we decided to go to Tresor, a "berlin style club". The club was situated in a abandoned factory which gave it a weird atmosphere.

On sunday we just slept the whole morning as we had a long journey and the driver needed some rest. The trip back to Karlsruhe was long but without any incidences