Winters Hotel Berlin Mitte Am Gendarmenmarkt
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Con Tiki
... con tiki mates, and everyone is great. The tour is made up of primarily Aussies, a handful of Americans, a few Canadians, a few Brazilians, and I am pretty sure just one European. Our Tour Manager, Penny, is also Australian and is great.
Our second day in Berlin we started off by seeing a few sights - mainly the Reichstag. We then went to the Sachsenhausan Concentration camp memorial - it was really good to see, but as you would expect, very eerie and very dead-feeling. ...
Waster
So remember me telling you I woke up in a chair by a river? Well that was around 8 o clock tonight. Suffice to say that I spent most of my time asleep, in the back of a taxi, or passed out fully clothed in my kilt at the hostel. Productivity at its very ...
The Best of Times, The Wurst of Times
... my ignorant questions.
Around the corner is the site of the post-war Checkpoint Charlie which essentially looks like a set up tourist attraction now but the large displays and old photographs of the surrounding areas really put it in perspective and you can almost imagine how intense it would have been despite the current McDonalds, Check Point Curry take out and loads of dudes in holiday tour t-shirts drinking on ...
On tour in Berlin.
... but everyone went to greet the thousands of east Germans who flooded over into the stores and arms of welcoming west Germans. It has been a costly exercise for west Germany to restore the roads and westernize the drab, boring buildings of the east. They are very proud to be celebrating 22 years since the wall came down. Tomorrow we head off to Prague. Better go home and pack my bags...early start ...
The new and cosmopolitan Berlin.....
... dark and shuttered.
Since I had lots of time, I decided to grab a small breakfast at one of the stands in the station. I then proceeded to Platform 10b, and had lots of time for a relaxing breakfast consisting of a Chorizo and Cheese bun, Orange Juice and Coffee. The train departed on time and it was a short 19 minute ride to Hilversum. I was sitting in one end of the rail car and there was only myself and a young lady in that area. I started chatting ...