Berlin & Potsdam

Heading off to Berlin on a weekend break, I just about ended up doing more flying than sightseeing on account of Easyjet delays there and back again! Six hours delay at one end....





Berln is a city of contrasts not much remains of its past and its future reminded me of something out of the Jetsons.







It was great to see the Wall and it was hard to appreciate what life must have been like when it was up with no man's land in between. What was East Germany is still much draber than West so its fairly easy to tell when you are in what was East or West Germany.






I headed out to Potsdam and checked out the Schloss Sanssouci, where Fredrick the Great resided and head of the Prussian empire, totally different than Berlin and not bombed! There is a whole area there which was known as the Forbidden City as it was occupied by the KGB during the time the wall was up, eerie place..

Scenes of London - Richmond Park

Hard to believe that somewhere this beautiful is in such a large city London is full of surprises!

Madonna - Sticky and Sweet Tour at Wembley

Ever since I first heard Madonna on tv I have wanted to go to a concert, she didn't dissapoint the best concert I have ever been too, more like a show than a concert! Seeing her at Wembley, priceless....Paul Oakenfold opened for her so it was like being in a club but with 90,000 other people!

Burghley Horse Trials and Soccer Aid Poles Apart

An action packed weekend, first up was the Burghley Horse Trials held about 2 hours out of London.





It was a great day and only turned torrential at the end of the day. Colina and I found it funny that there was a Dog Creche but there didn't appear to be a kids Creche, only at Burghley.


The house and grounds were gorgeous, although in some areas the mud was several inches thick, it reminded me of what Glastonbury must be like, albeit with much cleaner toilets!





I saw Zara Phillips, William Fox-Pitt, Mary King and Andrew Nicholson fly around a very demanding course. We saw about eight falls, seven of which were spectators falling into the mud and one was a horse and rider at the mushrooms, ouch...







Next up was Soccer Aid where all the money went to Charity, Chi & I got to see Gordon Ramsey (yes Rach I put a picture just for you!), Alan Shearer, Teddy Sherringdon, David Seaman, Gareth Gates, Craig David, Brian McFadden etc etc all running around on the Wembley pitch.





Great fun and amazing for me I didn't fall asleep, Chi threathened to put a photo of me up on face-book if I did.






Wembley is a awesome venue, it looks especially spectacular at night when its all lit up!