Saturday, June 9, 2018

Holiday in Berlin, Full Blown


Title of this blog post, Holiday in Berlin, Full Blown is a Frank Zappa cut from "Burnt Weeny Sandwich".

After 2 nights in Turkenfeld and a day in Munich, Alexandra, Vigil (Alexandra's sister) and I all flew out on June 1 for our Holiday in Berlin.  Even though the train is comfortable and easy, it's over twice the price of flying... so we flew.   Berlin was very warm (in the low 90's) .   While waiting to check into our apartment, we were entertained by a violent thunderstorm including hail.  Our apartment, while spacious and nicely furnished, had no A/C, and there was a construction site right outside the windows.  Keep the windows open... very noisy.  Windows closed, very hot.  But.. we had a refrigerator, so the chocolate didn't melt. 

The location was fine, though.  A short walk to the U (metro) station with grocery and restaurants nearby.  On our first day, we did the hop-on-hop-off bus tour.  Berlin is big... young and hip.  Way more to see and do than we could hope to do in the 3 days we were there.   But... we did get
Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin... where the wall was.
to Checkpoint Charlie, and the Jewish Museum.  The Checkpoint Charlie museum was small, hot, stuffy and poorly organized... but somewhat interesting.  If you had no memory of the cold war, it was pretty hard to follow..

Checkpoint Charlie - Berlin crossing between East and West
In the course of our travels I was able to replenish my supply of Swiss chocolate, as Läderach had a store in Berlin.

Alexandra and Vigil went to church one night at Saint Ludwig.   followed by beer and good German food :
                


No comments:

Post a Comment