Woke up around noon today - what a life eh! Its gonna be difficult adjusting to a normal life.. I dont wanna, I dont wanna!We lazed around til 3ish, having breakfast.. some more scrambled eggs al la Julio. MMmmm.. and headed home for 4pm to Shower for the night ahead. Wasn't too sure where we were going or what was happening, but Julian had something planned.. hmmm. I do love surprises :) We were meeting on the bus at 9:30pm.. I only knew the stop and not the bus number, so as I was approaching the stand, a bus pulled up.. I ran for it and jumped on. I couldnt see Julian anywhere, so frantically looked around and the driver was talking to a man, then turned to me, asking for my ticket (In German) - I was all fuzzled, not sure whether I was on the right bus, so told him I had the wrong bus and jumped off. The man got off with me and stood next to me counting all these coins.. for aggessss, and just as the right bus was pulling up, he handed me 1.50Euros and said, 'here, money for ticket' - of course I was like, 'Oh no no no, it was the wrong bus I was on, I have a card, its oookay.. no no' - but he was persistent, so I said thank you.. how sweet. The crazy thing is he looked like he lived on the streets - and he was kind enough to help me out thinking I needed it.. when it looked like he did. Definately made me think. :) Got on the bus and met Jools. Arrived at the destination 10mins later. And it was mobbbbbbed! Still wasnt sure what was happening.. when I asked, he just smiled..
We walked down, through the crowds and almost hit a full-stop. It was so busy with everyone trying to fit onto the path leading into the area.. but funny. Everyone was having a giggle trying to push their way to the front. Me being 5foot3, I couldnt see a thing ahead. To make things more cramped, an ambulance van squeezed its way through the crowds, some guys jumped on the back and hitched a lift.. gooooooood thinking guys. The rest of us jumped in behind the van and trodded along.. When we got through.. I remembed the stories of the Easter Bonfires at the Elbe. Amazing.. the entire stretch of beach was covered with mobs of people and bonfires.. some small for a couple people, some huge and big enough for 50! We walked about 20minutes down the beach, and found a spot that wasnt too busy. Spread the blanket, popped the vino and lay back to enjoy..
Was such a cool place & with a great atmosphere.. but chilly. After only 10mins we were feeling the cold and wished we had a bonfire of our own. The luuuckiest thing happened - the group behind us, got up and left, leaving a perfectly good bonfire in a fantastic spot. Lucky or what. We moved over and enjoyed the heat for 10mins and noticed we needed more wood. Hmm, where to get some wood? Oh look at that - another group next to us were going.. and leaving behind a mass of wood for us to steal and burn. As we would say back home.. Jammmiiiee Basssssies! Veggie Jools did a gooood job of keeping the fire going right through until 2am.. it was like his child.. his precious. Even taking about 20 pics of the fire, 'Look Deebo, its sooooo cool' :-) But it was.. reeeeeeeeally was.So at 2am, we walked back down the beach.. poor Julian finishing off the 2 bottles of wine minus one glass.. and feeling cheeeeeeky on the walk back, trying to lift me up and throw me in a bonfire. Thats right David, come give him into trouble for me!!!! Heh heh! Absolutely starving at half2, we got to Altona and there it was.. Mcdonalds. Like a bright shining light.. 'Eat me, Eat me' - so we did! Hit the spot and filled the gap! We talked for a while then jumped a taxi back to Schaferkampsallee. Spent the next hour taking videos of a spider walking about my roof..
My first ever Easter-Bonfire.. many thanks :)
