Zoologischer Garten (Berlin Zoo)

Today was long but good. We were up at 430 fighting because we couldn't find the key to the smart car to get to the airport. We unpacked our crammed bags, searched the porch and outside by the car only to find them sitting on the bedside table. Got to the airport in plenty of time and watched the sunrise over the water in Santorini...it was a nice …

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It is long time ago, but i still have the paiper from the trip, the teachers gave us!
We stayed at a young-peoples hostel. There were almost only pupils there, so it was a bit noisy, but we slept well!
It was the half of our school/class, so many of the day, we split, many were skimp of would not give money for …

Today would be the final few hours in Berlin before heading back to Liverpool and a mammoth drive back to Newcastle but one final thing was to be ticked off the list of places to see...The Zoo!

Luckily we got down to the zoo early and avoided the massive queue that had formed by the time we left.

The Zoo was awesome and possibly …

Entry containing 30 photos titled: Zoo, Fent maquetes

The Berlin Zoo was great! We saw just about every animal imaginable. Even a Jaguarundi. I wasn't sure if they even existed! The zoo's collection of animals was very extensive. The zoo is right in the middle of the city. Skyscrapers are being constructed right on its fence line. Not much room left for expansion. The zoo also had an aquarium, a …

I am obsessed with this city. When we arrived to Berlin we went straight to our hostel because it was such a long train ride. And our train got delayed of course haha all the German trains we have ridden has had a delay.
After we finally figured out which spot was where our train is we got food. We were waiting for the bus to come pick us up …

What a City... more please!

This is my very first blog ever... sorry if it sound like a review, I'm sure in time I will get into the swing of things... so be gentle with me!

I was initially thinking... what is there to do in Berlin once you have done the Berlin Wall & The Brandenburg Gate...be a bit boring...boy was I wrong!< …

So only about a week and 2 countries later, I thought it was time to talk about Berlin!

On our first day, we decided to take a free walking tour. In the rain. Bad idea.
For the most part, the 3 & 1/2 hour tour was pretty interesting, but the tour guide rambled a lot and made really lame jokes, or maybe everything just seemed worse …

After we decided to continue our trip and make our way to Croatia for Anton's wedding, we quickly agreed that we wanted to explore a bit of eastern Europe in the short two weeks. Berlin was our first stop as we heard from many people that it was one of the best cities in Europe.

We were lucky enough to be hosted by a great couple we met …

... of the wall, detailing some of the methods East Berliners used to try and cross. Later on we headed down to the Zoologischer Garten station to buy our tickets for Prague tomorrow....and lo and behold, we came across an oasis known as Dunkin' Donuts. ...

... un superbe voyage.   Avec nos valises, nous montons sur le U-bahn pour la première fois. Nous descendons à l'immense station Zoologischer Garten pour jeter un premier coup d'oeil à la ville. Comme 90 % de la ville a été reconstruite après ...

... the S-bahn instead. Up to Friedrick Strasse we travelled, changing to the east-west line down to the Zoologischer Garten station and thus the heart of West Berlin. Here we walked past the bombed church, down the main drag past crowds of people and ...

... leaving KaWaDe we went in search of the German bakery we had gone past yesterday. We retraced our steps back to the Zoologischer Garten S-Bahn satation were we found the purveyor of fine baked goods. We picked up a couple of very German sounding items ...

... in tomato sauce and served with fries) I know it sounds bad but it is great and our favourite place is right by Zoologischer Garten U-Bahn so it's convenient too. We more than likely had a donor kebab because the old guys around the corner from the ...

... and reconstruted in a glass structure. We can visited in Berlin the "Siegesäule" (the colonn of the victory), the "Zoologischer Garten" (zoological garden), the "Potsdamer" place with the modern "Sony Center". There are the "Reichstag" building, the ...

... you to listen to while you go through the last of the photos of this beautiful city. They have a Zoo Station here so that's what made me think of it.  Zoologischer Garten is its actual name, it was the former main train station of West ...

Sunny to drizzle. To zoo! Much fun. Rode bikes through back streets, bike paths to zoo. Nasty baboons (one with huge erection), funny monkeys, sleepy panda, broing antelope, skinny tiger, many polar bears (one of whom loved to swim), pacing brown ...

... and back on the German railway to complete the day out.  We are 3 stations from the main Berlin station - we are staying in Zoologischer Garten - 3 stops from the Hauptbahnhof main trunk station.     You can tell 90% of Berlin was ...

... were incredible. I've never seen someone manage to walk uphill on a tightrope (she nearly fell off too...). We came back to the Zoologischer Garten train stop the following day as well to do some more shopping, but we had also pre-booked a Cold War ...