packing, repacking and the perils of not shaking jetlag

before tuesday jetlag was never something i was concerned about - never had a problem hence didn't think much about it. 

but NOW i CANNOT SLEEP IN!!!!!!

every morning at 5am berlin time POP go my eyes and i'm awake. Jeremy is much the same - i look over and there he is staring at the ceiling. 

The first response we had was - alright we'll just stay up late. so tuesday night it's 8pm here and we're both sliding off the seats in the U-bahn (underground train network). come 9pm in our hotel room i'm drooping on to the laptop keyboard and jeremy's staring sleepy eyed at his. I think it was about 10:30pm when we both crashed. 

and wednesday morning - up at 5am AGAIN!! 

Wednesday and thursday were the same - we try to stay up but come 7pm we're really fighting it and end up going to bed before 9pm. 

this morning was a touch better - woke up around 6am. maybe it will be bearable by sunday then hey? 

In other news we're moving on to our 3rd place of accomodation which means repacking - URG. 

we're leaving the Circus hostel (fabulous by the way!) and moving our baggage that has grown to ten separate bags (!!!) to an apartment that a woman who's visiting cologne is renting out to us for a week or so. Should be cool - we can wash clothes and jeremy's excited about the prospect of an iron. the worst part will be shuffling our way there on the underground - just form a mental picture of us two pretty much covered in baggage squeezing on to seats and knocking out other train users. 

At least i guess we'll be warm - it's pretty damn cold here. we were seriously snowed on on our first day when we visited our uni. Just raining a bit at the moment but they are expecting more snow. 

and yes jeremy got his BAG BACK!! yesterday or the day before. all good except a zip is broken. 

we've been trekking all other the city looking at different apartments. Mostly in the areas Kreuzberg and prenzlauer berg. these are the two boho, interesting areas. almost everyone recommends KBerg to us but its really popular. We find an apartment online that's within our price range and then go to call and its already gone, almost in a few hours. 

We should find something soon though, we're looking at 3 tomorrow, one in Berlin Mitte - like the CBD area but bigger. the area where we've been staying this week at the hostel is fantastic, in Berlin mitte and just really cool. lots of good spots are within walking distance and a few really good berlin designer shopping strips too. we found some apartments near here but they keep getting snapped up too quickly for us. 

much love to all!