Thank you for doing a wonderful job getting me to Amsterdam and then Berlin. The Amsterdam flight had a bit better landing than the Berlin flight, but that is okay :).
Love,
Allison.
Right now, I am sitting in a Berlin Internet cafe drinking a beer, as the hotel does not have free WiFi and why not drink a beer while enjoying Germany?
Today, after the flight, we went to the bank, ate at a delicious Italian type restaurant, and finally got the lasagna I had been craving for the past week.
After eating something that was not airplane or airport food, the group walked around as a short (long) tour of the city, just to try and get a feel for direction and the train system.
We rode the S-Bahn a ways, before getting off and walking around a few government buildings, like the chancellor's office. We then continued to walk as the professor pointed out interesting features of the city. After walking through a park for the Soviet Union, we walked towards the Brandenburg Gate. Before we got to the gate, the professor asked how they remember the wall, and looking down, there was a line 2 bricks deep of where the wall used to be in the ground. After we walked to the "East Germany" side, we wandered through the memorial for the Holocaust victims.
We then took a short break to warm up and drink something warm (or beer) before we headed off to a Christmas Market. The professor surprised us with tickets to ride down an ice slide for "Penguins of Madagascar". I did not ride on the slide, but everyone else surely enjoyed it.
After the market, we had free time, so some people decided to stay at the market, while others went to eat, and others still tried to make it back to the hotel. Our challenge was to make it back to our hotel on our own, or in a small group. I went back to the hotel, which is how I ended up here, at this Internet cafe drinking a lovely beer.
Berlin: 1/18 done
