DieselGotKelly

After a whole week of relaxing, seeing sights and enjoying the World Cup in a country where soccer REALLY matters.

After al our teams lost–USA, Brazil and then Germany–the World Cup suddenly became not as exciting, almost uninteresting…until the Germany x Portugal game. We watched it at an Italian restaurant with Winny, his roommate Ramona and her crew. The 3rd roommate, Anja was apalled when she found out we went to an Italian restaurant–she started boycotting all things Italian after Germany lost to Italy.

The crowd was animated and gathered around the big screen that was set up outside. Germany 3 x Portugal 1. P-A-R-T-Y. We all headed over to Leopoldstrasse, one of the many Fan Meilen (fan miles) set up in the major German cities where streets were closed, giving way to a flood of excited soccer fans ready to party all night. When in Germany, do as the Germans do. And so we did.

Leopoldstrasse was madness. German flags dotting the sea of people; black, red and yellow stretching over for miles.

We partied till 2 in the morning. Half of us left and the other half showed up early that morning, when we all had a nice and cozy breakfast in Winny’s balcony.