Our Swiss Adventure: Berlin & Budapest Birthdays

In early November of last year we went to Budapest, Hungary for a long weekend to celebrate Marc's 29th birthday. Somehow we managed to see more than the inside of ruin bars (crumbling buildings that have been repurposed into cool bars with cheap booze). What else did we do? We walked around the city a lot and did a beer bike tour. So see. We got some culture in.

Marc goes big for his birthdays and the year before we went on similar trip to Berlin, Germany for his 28th birthday. I never wrote about it, but it was a good time and deserves to be documented. Instead of ruin bars we visited clubs where we were denied access for, I'm assuming, looking too put together (to get into clubs in Berlin you basically have to dress like a bum, or a grungy teen circa 1994). In Berlin we again got a bit of culture in with a beer bike tour and city walks.

The biggest difference between the two trips? I was 100% sober for Budapest and probably only 10% sober for Berlin. Check out the fun...

Berlin Nov 2013
City Walk

The Berlin Wall

Beer Bike Tour

Deep Haus Tree Haus

We couldn't get in to the main part of this club, only the outside little hut that we dubbed the Deep Haus Tree Haus. At the door of the main club was a woman and a bouncer. The woman (who was dressed like a bag lady) looked us up and down, appeared very bored, and said something in German. We assumed she said "Come on in", so we proceed to walk in. She stops and says something else in German. Then the bouncer steps in and says, "I think there's been some sort of misunderstanding". We're thinking Oh yeah thanks, we want to go in the club, I don't think she gets it. He proceeds to say, "You will not be getting into this club tonight. Understand? Not now. Not ever." Oh, OK message received...Deep Haus Tree Haus it is.