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■德國柏林每年暑假都舉行Love Parade 嘉年華。
Last summer I embarked on the most amazing journey of my life so far – a trip from England to Hong Kong on the train, where we stopped at Berlin, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Irkutsk, Listviyanka, Ulan Ude, Ulan Bataar, Beijing and Yangzhou. This was the time I felt the most liberated, like I could leave everything else behind just for a while, like all my troubles were gone and I was onto a new start. Indeed it was a new beginning – I had just finished school and was just months away from university. To me this was not much of a sad goodbye, I had been ready to go for a while. I took with me the excitement of starting a new page in life, going to new places to see wonderful curious things I was yet to discover.
Berlin with Love Parade
I travelled with three friends – Mark, Toby and Jez. The first leg of our trip was Berlin for its infamous Love Parade. We got there in the morning and checked into a Berlin hostel that claimed to be “good in beds” and set off for the parade in the afternoon. There was a massive swarm of people trying to get to the beer stall. Being the smallest in the group, I managed to slip through the gaps and get to the front and bought drinks for all of us – one of which got stolen from Jez. He was too busy looking at the pretty girl. We soon realised beer was the currency du jour. Whilst we sat on the grass chilling out, enjoying the beer but not so much the stompy music, various groups too lazy to queue attempted to exchange the beer with us for anything from cash, speed and ecstasy; but we stuck to our good old beer. After a while, there were three naked women who decided to lie on the grass some 15m away from us, and soon a crowd of men gathered around them as they posed suggestively together and people started taking pictures.
Zoe Law
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