Ah, germany
A school trip to Germany was possibly the best ever. We stopped off for a night in Hamburg on our way to Berlin.

"Turn to Channel 5!" is issued from my lips.

Cue many, many 15 year olds watching porn.

My friend had smuggled rum in his bag via the cunning trick of putting it in water bottles. Getting drunk. Putting the hotel matches to good use - fiery eau de toilet on my hand not so good. People mistaking the rum for water and getting shocked. People mistaking the water for rum and being disappointed.

Finally get to Berlin. The first night four of us are locked out of our room due to some incredibly dodgy locks, and we're given two other rooms, with no clothes or overnight things to speak of. I'm sharing with a guy I don't particularly like but can live with. I come out of the shower to hear some giggling and what sounds like a deodorant being emptied.

I open the shower door moments later, and am confronted with my big, fat roomsharer with a receding hairline crying his eyes out wearing nothing but red Y-fronts. I was going to sleep in my clothes, it appeared he had different ideas!

The giggling/deodorant thing turned out to be my other mates, who had found a cannister of pepper spray and emptied it on my roommate.

The top floor of the hotel was impossible to go on. Floor below that you were crying. Floor below that you were coughing. Floor below that you could smell it. Only reason the floor below that was unaffected was because it was the lobby and they'd opened the window.

Surprisingly we weren't thrown out.

But some of our number did get stuck in the lift on the last day. Because they jumped up and down a lot. With heavy bags.

In hindsight the holiday was great but being attacked with pepper spray is not fun at the time.

Apologies for length. Again.
( Detrius521, Thu 21 Apr 2005, 15:44, Reply)