BERLIN – DILEMMAS

Vitamins are very important. One of my favorite German vitamin is the ‘Currywurst’. But there’s always this daily issue, do I order it with fries or a bun. If it’s raining I think I prefer the bun. On sunny days fries taste much better. Or is it the other way around?

Anyway, if you think this is weird, you should know Leonie only likes the “Currywurst’ if it’s cut into small diagonally slices. And wait there is more, preferably cut by a machine, not by hand. So who’s the weirdo here?

Berlin 01-02-2024

BERLIN – UNIQUE

We took the ‘U-Bahn’ to Alexanderplatz and started walking and exploring the city. We passed the ‘Altes Stadhaus’, had a look inside the ‘Nicolaikirche’. Spend about an hour at the ‘DDR-Museum’ and also visited the ‘Berliner Dom’. Had some coffee and a Berliner. We crossed the ‘Museuminsel’, walked ‘Unter den Linden’, ‘Den Gendarmenmarkt’, ‘Der Deutsche Dom’ to ‘Checkpoint Charlie’ and the little outdoor museum. We didn’t go inside the ‘Topographie des Terrors’ museum, but we did read the history outside on the panels at the back of some remains of the Berlin wall. A quick stop was needed at a big Mall for a warm jacket, gloves and coffee. The ‘Grossmutters Streusel’ pastry never arrived so we went on to the ‘Potsdamer Platz, missed the information board about the former ‘Führersbunker’. The ‘Holocaust-Denkmal’ was already impressive, but we probably go back there to see it by daylight. As well as ‘The Brandenburger Tor’, which was absolutely stunning with all the spotlights. We had a real ‘Wiener Schnitzel’ and a ‘Berliner Kindl Pils’ at the Schnitzelei before we couldn’t find the tram/bus ‘S1B’ back home. So we walked.

I’m very curious what’s on the program tomorrow, probably some walking 😉

Berlin 31-01-2024

THE LONGEST CASTLE OF THE WORLD

The trigger was the name of the German city Tittmoning. I know, it’s childish but come on. So we stopped a couple of kilometers further for the night. Near the city of Burghausen. There’s no fun in that name but it didn’t stop me repeating the beautiful name ‘Tittmoning’ all the way. We had a nice walk around the lake and the Burghausen Castle and Old City. It seemed we just missed Napoleon, who stayed here in the castle for a couple of days, just a few years ago. Too bad, I wonder whats his thoughts would be about ‘Titt………..

Burghausen 25-01-2024