Blind Booking

Blind Booking is an interesting system used by cheap airlines here in Europe. As you all know there is so much to see here, so many sights and history. For 19.95 Euro one way you can do a blind booking. It is a good way for the cheap airlines to fill seats.

How is works: you go online and select party, beach, shopping, eastern Europe or western Europe. Each of the categories has 5 cities listed under as destinations. You enter your travel days and they give you flights to one of the 5 place.

Casey and I did this. It was a wild feeling we were hovering around my computer as it selected our destination.

We got Berlin. Neither of us are history buffs, so were were like cool Berlin, but what to do there for 2 days.

We got online and the top rated attraction was Segway tours of the city. So, we booked a tour. Segways are the little scooter things mail cops drive. They are totally controlled by balance,which was weird at first. We had training then we were off. Below is our tour guide Waid and the remaining section of the Berlin wall.

Below is me rocking my Segway in front of the Berlin Dome. The Segways were a blast and we were still laughing about them the following day. Unfortunately, the guy in front of me crashed HARD. I barely avoided him. I got lucky. Casey witnessed it all and we laugh about it to this day.

I am standing in front of the Check Point Charlie replica, which divided communist East Berlin from democratic West Berlin. Note, that I am wearing my back pack on the front. Berlin is known pickpockets and gypsies. Not Cool.

Our last night we decided on Kebabs from a street food stand and large beers. We ate in front of fountain in East Berlin right under the famous TV tower.

"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely." ~William Osler