It’s was a long day. The van we rented was suddenly not available. Forgot the key to our storage while standing in front. We left way to late for our trip to Danmark. Paid for that with two hours of trafficjam. The currywurst I had wasn’t the best in history. But who cares, it was a currywurst!
Today’s the 75th anniversary of its creation by Berlin’s Herta Heuwer. In 1949, she started experimenting with some curry powder mixing it with tomato paste, Worcestershire sauce, a little salt, and sugar.
Do I need to say more, Herta ist ein Held!
The eagle has landed. Tuuli is finally back on Vlieland and also ready to take off later on this week. It looks like our destination is going to be the Elbe (Brunsbüttel & Currywurst), but you never know. With Helgoland and even Thyboron still in mind we’ll see where the wind will bring us.
If you like you can follow us on Marine Traffic. Search on Tuuli or on our MMSI 244660104.
There’s not much to tell about. It’s a very nice little island, perfect for a bike tour. And that’s what I did. If you go all around it’s about 48km, flat, hardly any dunes, but with good cycle paths and roads. It’s Germany, so it is organized, clean and …., well did I mention it is German? I enjoyed my ride, forgot of course that after 25km my knee stops cooperating. Then I had to stop anyway because of a flat tyre, which saved my enthusiasm for a couple of kilometers. After that I focussed on the first ‘Currywurstbude’ for some new energy and vitamins. I passed one earlier on but by the time I found another one in the little town of Wijk it was also time to board. And you should never rush eating a ‘Currywurst’, everybody knows that.
Even now this important part of todays mission failed, the isle of Föhr was certainly worth the visit.
We are done and gone. Walked at least another marathon in the city, saw all the things we had to see and even more like one of the ‘Berliner Unterwelten’ tours and a nice guided tour at the ‘Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche’ old and new-style. Both impressive and educational as well as almost everything we’ve seen the last days.
We certainly became experts in traveling with the public transport. We even passed a train station three times, with three different trams in just a bit more then three minutes. That must have been a day record for Dutch tourists in Berlin.
Please check Leonie’s Polarsteps for lots of pictures or just take a look for yourself one day. I’m sure we will, we forgot something.
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?
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 😉
