Well, while I was in Hamburg, he was in Freiburg. We both were supposed to end up in Storkow (near Berlin) on Friday afternoon (the 10th). Well, thank goodness Felix got there before me. Although - he got there WAY before me. Like three hours! His travel day from near Freiburg started at 5am and he got to Storkow around 5pm. Twelve hours! Yikes indeed - although my journey was shorter, I was very late showing up.
Left Hamburg at 1pm, bus to Berlin. Traffic. Got there one hour late at 5pm. Streetcar from bus station to Konigs Winterhausen (suburb of Berlin). That leg alone was one hour. Bus from Konigs Winterhausen to Friedenshafen, which was a substitute for the train, which doesn't go that late in the evenings anymore. Train from Friedenshafen to Storkow, only took twenty minutes. Walked from Storkow train station to where festival was being held. Finally! Close to 8:30 I was at Mama!
Right - I didn't tell you why I had to travel to Storkow. Oops. Mamallapuram was the festival's name. It's tiny, only a couple hundred people in tents and ten bands, all German, but sometimes they sang in English. Very off the beaten path. Felix knows the organizer's, so it was cool to feel like part of the in crowd. His friends Chrissi, Franziska, Andreas, Gorden, Gunnar, and Sascha were there as well. And we got along pretty well. Sascha, Chrissi, Andreas, and I got along very well! Andreas mooched ibuprofen from me, Sascha danced with me, and Chrissi and I - well, we just got along in the old-fashioned girlie way. Giggling, etc.
We were camped there for two nights. Lots of beer and water, very yummy creative breakfasts and snacks.....
Here we are next to the caravan. People must have been jealous - we had the van, two tents, and one of those giant parasol things with legs... so we had an area that was somewhat drier than elsewhere.
Here's Felix in the tent we shared for the two nights. It wasn't really cramped, but Felix is a bit taller than me, so... it was a bit cramped for him. And the second night, Chrissi joined us, which didn't make Felix happy.
It did rain throughout the weekend, although there was a nice bit of sun. We had a dip in the local lake (thank goodness I brought my bikini right?). But the snails and slugs were out in full force. This one got fresh with Gorden's tent.
Here's Andreas covering himself up. He did the ear thing on his own - for a laugh, of course. I mean, I was teasing him right and left, which was fairly easy to be honest. He left so much open for ridicule.
Chrissi and Franzi bet against Felix. I think it was about the changed order of bands. Felix lost and had to kiss their dirtiest foot.
Here's a nice picture of Felix. Handsome devil, wouldn't you say? (He paid me to say that. You owe me ten bucks, Flex.)
But after Mama, Felix and I caught a ride (very German thing - www.mitfahrgelegenheit.de if you're interested) with two girls driving to Cottbus. We weren't going that far, but they drove us straight to Felix's parent's house in Guben, which is right on the Polish border. We stayed there two nights, mainly taking showers and doing laundry. We did walk around and over to Poland. They didn't care to see passports going into Poland, but coming back into Germany, they were suddenly red in the face that I didn't have a stamp in my passport for crossing the border two hours previously. Oops.
The time in Guben was nice though, because it gave Felix and I some time to ourselves to just talk. We haven't seen each other since last summer, so there was some stuff to catch up on. That and meeting his grandparents (who are super sweet!) were the highlights of Guben.
Here's me after a well-deserved nap....
We took the train from Guben up to Greifswald, where Felix studies. I stayed there another two nights before heading down to Cologne for my flight to England. Greifswald is a cute city and Felix lives really central, which was nice. Andreas (from the festival) and his girlfriend, Anna, live across the street. First night there, I cooked! Apple-honey curry with chicken and walnuts over rice. Everyone loved it, but it didn't sit well in my tummy. :(
I got to visit with Andreas and Chrissi again, which was really great! After not feeling well from my curry, we watched the Simpsons Movie (very happy it was only 80 minutes). During Wednesday, Felix took me up to the top of the cathedral. Extremely windy stairs, sometimes very steep also. He was a gentleman and did NOT make fun of my fear of heights. And he has a cute picture of us at the top... (read: where is it Felix?) The next night, we went to the beach! Finally, some good weather for beer and volleyball. Apparently, those two things go together....
Here's the beach - the Baltic Sea beach!
Chrissi and Anna sitting on our blanket. Anna can do amazing things with her feet, as can I, so were satisfied while Felix and Chrissi played some volleyball. Then, we finally got dragged over.
The sunset over the Baltic Sea. I'm so interested.....
So, then I caught a ride Thursday morning with two different girls driving to Cologne. It took me forever to get there, so I missed Morice's birthday party. Harumph. But I did meet and talk with Maria's mother, which was worth the ten hours of travel. Yes, ten hours of travel. Traffic sucks. From Cologne, I caught the bus to Frankfurt Hahn and flew to England. But that's another post....
Felix and I will see each other again in Hamburg in September. And did I mention he was a DJ - so he'll know all the good places to party at?
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