Guten Tag!

Ich bin just back from Berlin for my mate Peter's stag do.... Broke myself slightly, but had a great time... Managed to do pretty much 66%-33% split on piss up and culture, although the majority of the culture and sightseeing was done on my own yesterday after everyone else had gone home...

I found myself staring at this chap at checkpoint Charlie wondering who he was. An actor? An actual soldier? Is it a recent shot or was it taken when the wall was functioning? What is the point? Is it meant to be a representation of an "average" American just in case the East German's weren't sure what one looked like? I'm sure it's on Wikipedia somewhere but I can't be bothered looking it up - much more fun to ponder of an evening.



I'm sure the vast majority of you willnae give a monkeys about my pictures of the trip, but I've just forked out to upgrade my Flickr account so might as well make use of it. The last time I put some tourist snapshots on there I got a lovely comment in Polish about how I was a crap photographer, so maybe I'll get more constructive feedback later on. I also have a few videos of "the lads" serenading the pub with Northern Irish football songs on Saturday night.

All together now.... We're noooottttttt Brazil, we're Northern Ire-Lannnnd!!!