A Slow Day and a Long Night
Berlin, Germany
05.11.2011 - 05.11.2011
Today I woke late due to staying up last night. As well as sleeping in a little, I also wasted time trying to get ready for the day. Looking up stuff for where I was going and updating this diary.
I went to the proper Stasi Museum, which I was a little worried about since it is off my map, so had to go off the directions I had written down while I had access to the map on the internet. But I got there and back fine.
The museum was okay, but I thought it was going to be the museum that had the interrogation techniques and the way they kept and interrogated suspects. But this was more of the stuff I'd seen yesterday. Though some stuff was interesting. They had examples of the surveillance equipment they used, like the briefcase camera and a camera in a railroad sleeper.
Afterwards I went to Checkpoint Charlie since I thought the KGB station there was where the stuff I was looking for was and I'd gotten it mixed up. But whether it was there or not I wasn't able to find it.
After going back to the hotel, I caught up on some needed sleep. I was going to have a quiet night though I thought I'd have one or two drinks with the guys but not go out with them. Ended up going to the pub in the hostel, where I started talking to a couple of people, and against my best intentions, followed them to the club they wanted to go to.
I left them there since they were staying out much later, but it was still very late. The place was interesting though. They played really hard techno in what seemed to be a bomb shelter complex. The place was all underground and all the walls were thick concrete. It was on several floors with concrete and steel staircases going between them. Regretted not carrying a camera since nothing was supposed to happen that night.
Posted by cannon_fodder 06.11.2011 03:45 Archived in Germany
