Recovery.

So I havent updated this in a while....after Wacken we were in Erfurt for 2 days and didnt really do anything because we are still recovering from Wacken as we speak ha ha. Erfurt was a small quiet town with friendly people, we also met another Australian who was also heading to Party San. We were pretty sad for these few days because we just wanted to be back at Wacken all over again ha ha.

Party San was full of complications getting there, from getting the wrong train to getting off at the wrong stop and having to walk half the way. Once we were there it was fine, we met some nice German lads who let us camp with them and gave us some beer. Unfortunately one of the Germans in that area was a Nazi, yes a full on Nazi. So he was saying inappropriate things the whole time and he was a dick. We met a few more nice Germans and some lovely Danish men who kept us entertained. The only downfall was excessive rain which led to ridiculous amounts of mud all over the festival!! Our boots were completely caked all weekend long and you could only walk at a snails pace to avoid falling over. All in all the festival is very small though so only one stage which was kind of nice, if you met someone the night before you were sure to see them the next day, not a good thing if you were drunk around them the night before ha ha.

Aura Noir were fantastic to see live as well as Napalm Death surprisingly. All in all we had another great weekend which is good considering the weather could have made it a bad one! Now we are in Dresden which is a lovely city and the area we are in is a lot like Brunswick st with hippies everywhere and people covered in tattoos and weird hairstyles ha ha. We wandered through the Old Town which was very pretty but again spent most of the time recovering before Summerbreeze tomorrow!!

Sue I am going to post a link to my Facebook here so you can check out our photos for yourself.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/WhereTheSlimeLive

Click on this link above or copy and paste it into the web browser and once it takes you to my page click on the tab that says PHOTOS and you will find all the different folders of photos from all the different countries :) xx

Wacken 2010.

Words simply cannot describe so I wont even try, all I can say is this was the best weekend of my entire life and I am going to try and go back every single year to relive that feeling. We just purchased our tickets for 2011! Thanks so much to the amazing Swedish boys that we camped with, you are all insane!

Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp.

So our last day in Berlin was solely dedicated to visiting the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp which is located about 30 minutes outside of the city centre. The camp was somewhat revolutionary in terms of the Holocaust as it set a standard for many of the camps that were built after it. Our tour guide was fantastic as he had studied the Holocaust, Hitler, WW1 and 2 etc so he was extremely knowledgeable and had toured this camp many times. He had also been to Auschwitz and several other camps and thought that Sachsenhausen was the more interesting. This made me happy as I really wished we could have made it to Poland to see Auschwitz.

I dont feel I can really accurately describe everything we saw and the ins and outs of the whole experience other than to say it really was amazing. Our tour was extremely thorough, not skipping one single detail and some of the stories left me with goosebumps. Watching interviews with survivors of the camp describing the guards who had become bored with their everyday routines taking prisoners caps and throwing them into the "death strip" and forcing the inmate to retrieve it knowing full well he would be shot. Seeing the actual device which was made to resemble a height measuring tool which actually used a mechanism to reveal a crack in the wall where inmates were shot by a guard in the next room. Seeing the crematoriums....

I had tears in my eyes nearly the entire time but one quote I will never forget by an inmate telling what an SS guard said to a new influx of inmates;

"There is a way to freedom, but only through this chimney".

We will also be visiting Dachau and Buchenwald as well. On a lighter note we got drunk at our local Indian on free booze again and we are off to Hamburg today and Wacken is in 2 days!!! Cannot believe it.