Ascot Bristol Hotel Potsdam

It is sunny and feels warm. We are in shorts and short sleeve shirts and going back to Potsdam to have a look at their parks and castles.

We catch the bus to Wannsee and train to Potsdam and the bus downtown to the market place to have a Bratwurst for lunch. Mmmm good. We buy some more cherries to eat on our walk through the town.

It is now cold with storm clouds threatening, we each buy a sweat suit. The rain begins and ...

... Euro tickets to get there and back along with having our Berlin rail passes. See? Not far. But anyway, there's this Palace in Potsdam that's on the cover of the Berlin travel guide Megan's mother has, and she told us she'd wanted to go there for over 10 years, so I told Charlie right away when we arrived that I wanted to go there. So we did! There were a lot of gorgeous buildings around that we saw before it, and some ...

... English and German. It was a nice museum and it had plenty of exhibits. I always wanted to visit a Museum dedicated to Anne Frank ever since I read her diary. My favorite part of the museum was how it told Anne Frank's life in chronological order. After I toured the exhibit for a few hours I worked up quite an appetite so I decided to eat. I got to Café Kempinski around 5 ...

... jouer de la differente musique alors on pouvait choisir de danser a la sorte de musique que ca nous tentait. Ok Mme Dion, tu vas pas etre trop fiere de moi, cette derniere phrase faisait dur, obvieusement, puisque je ne parle comme jamais francais sauf quand j'ecris ici ou je parle au telephone. Anyways, samedi apres-midi je suis allee magasiner avec Verena et sa soeur, on est pas rester longtemps alors je n'ai pas acheter ...

... there. It's a pleasant respite, albeit the bittersweet feeling one gets visiting his home, dining al fresco on his patio, overlooking his gardens and taking in a lovely view of the Wannsee. Like much in Berlin, one can never escape the constant reminders of the extraordinary pain and tremendous loss of human talent during the Nazi era. For more info: http://www.max-liebermann.de/en/(S(1zf5 nzyzsytx4bn30spmdu55) )/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=1

... breaky buffet, afterwards we went to a Trash n Treasure market where there was more trash than tresure but very funny to see what these people are selling. then we went to the Wall Documentation centre which has a heap of pictures from 1960 when the temporary barbed wire fence boundary first went up until 1990 when the wall came down. The photos that really catch your eye are ones where you see family members on either side of the wall back in the 60's when youcould actually see ...

... took the Fat Tire bicycle tour of the city. It was as much fun as you could have on a bike and as much fun as a person can have listening to historical facts. We had a large group with a few females who were not the most highly coordinated (they gave us fair warning) so all the historical site seeing aside, the crashes were worth it by themselves. From the Berlin wall to the bunker Hitler killed himself in, we got to see a great deal of ...

... and shopping. Wroclaw is a very lively town and is one of the few cities in Poland that is growing in population. If you tour around the city you'll notice that there is tons of construction because the government (and EU) have invested billions of Euros in improving the city infrastructure. During the day, I browsed around the city (walked around the Rynek, relaxed in the park, took Lee's 1938 Dutch bicycle out for a ride, etc) while Lee was off teaching. At night ...

... to find the hostel and didn't want to be wandering around at night looking lost!! Finally arrived in Berlin and managed to catch the right train and go in the right direction- what luck! The area near the stop that I got off seemed seedy, but I made it to the hostel. Then I had to walk up four huge flights of stairs, should of accepted the offer from a guy to carry my bag! Was desperate for a shower after ...

DAY 57. SEPTEMBER 27. BERLIN Ich bin ein Berliner You can get cheap airfares from London to many places. For example you can fly from London to Berlin for just 17 quid with Air Berlin. That's how much we paid for our flight today. It is the extra costs, which make it more expensive. Taxes for our ticket was 20 pounds per person. And because we were flying out of Stinted Airport it cost us 17 quid each to get there. So the actual airfare was cheaper ...