After an uneventful flight we landed in Berlin, the pilot having made up for the late departure, at the scheduled arrival time. We passed through Customs effortlessly, unlike the Russian in the line in front of us who took some 10 minutes to convince the clean cut young man in the customs booth that he should be allowed to enter Germany. Next wa...

11 Feb 2008 This morning we got going bright and early in order to beat the crowds to the Reichstag. We had a quick breakfast of the last two slices of our loaf of bread and topped with some cheese slices. While we were eating we put the TV on and came across what looked like your fairly standard American teenage sit-com, the actress whole pl...

Today's first objective was to head back to KaDaWe and buy a pressure cooker. For those who know Belle well this will not come as to much of a surprise. When we were in the kitchenware section yesterday Belle had spotted 'Fissler' brand pressure cookers and was very excited by the price - 50% less than she had seen them on sale for in Australia....