TRIP REPORT; AACHEN, GERMANY

So im back from Budapest, but beforeei get into that, we should get my trip to Germany out of the way first.

It was to Aachen, two saturdays ago, to catch the Bundesliga game between Alemannia Aachen and Werder Bremen. It was a last minute thing, and I only decided the night before that I was going to go. Well it was only then that we managed to get tickets for the game. It wasn't a problem because we were going to drive there anyway.

So I went early in the morning, at about 8am, after only sleeping for 3 hours (Party the night before of course), with Fritz. He's German, and from Bermen, and a real football nut.. the kind who has a season ticket and gets drunk and shouts on the streets. And all his friends are too, we had 13 of us in the group and it was one of the craziest days so far in Europe. So We took turns driving, and it isnt that far anyway. Quite close to the Dutch/German border, nar Maastricht.

So we arrived at one of his friends place (also from bermen but living in Aachen) and ate while waiting for everyone to arrive. In the meantime, everyone got drunk and sang football songs (wtf?). The ticket was only 9Euro, much cheaper than Dutch football games. The stadium was shit though! Must have been the worst stadium i've beent too.. Its Bundesliga and half the stadium doesn't even have seats?!?! Well the game ended in a 2-2 draw and Bremen played like shit, but that didnt stop the whole group from going crazy, which lasted into the night.

So we went back and had pizza, getting crates of beer along the way. They drink a lot more than the Dutch. And beer is cheaper too. At 10 we went out again to go pub hopping, so that was nice.. Aachen is kinda like Utrecht. Old town, kinda small sized and based around a large student population. After hitting up 5 bars/clubs everyone went back in different groups depening on the afer bar activity. I just had a drink so we got back around 4 or so. The last group came back close to 6 and coninued the party and refused to let anyone sleep. I was beaten with piillows and shoes till i got up and drank some more. And then finally people got tired and 13 of us had to sleep in the living room and bedroom (it was a one bedromo apartment).

We got up at lunch and drove back to Utrecht. I had to go for so many group meetings and catch up on the work that I was supposed to do. So that was the weekend. GUUUUUUUUUUUUNE LAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNE!!!!!!!