Europe 2017: The Wall

After a pretty darn good night's sleep at this country haven we were ready for breaky at 8. We walked over to the restaurant and found that we had a table reserved for us with coffee waiting! Was a nice thoughtful touch. Nate was happy to have eggs, his favorite breakfast food.

We went back to our room and watched a bit of footy before taking off for Berlin. Was another 300 or so kilometres on the autobahn to get there, and there were only fractionally less trucks on the road so still the traffic was scary. We made good time even with a stop to refuel and have a quick Bretzel for a snack. Did I mention before that you need to pay to use the service station toilets? Didn't in France but have everywhere since. Costs between 50 and 70 cents and generally gets you a pretty clean and tidy bathroom. Also the ones in Germany spin the toilet seats everytime you flush - I think its trying to clean the rim but its very odd.

lots of forests on this drive

yummy salty pretzel

Elbe river

quiet part of the Autobahn

not so quiet part

sorry I cut Ulbrecht's head off

nice wide roads in the city

first sighting of The Wall remnants

Our new hotel is also nice and our room is certainly big enough for us and our luggage. I'm pretty happy too as it's on a street right between Checkpoint Charlie, and also the remnants of the Berlin Wall!

Because we got here early we had some time to kill so we walked down the road a little and ordered up some Currywurst for lunch. For those of you who don't know what that is its basically a thick sausage cut up and served with a spicy ketchup and sprinkled with curry powder, served with fries of course. Tony also got himself a groovy Berlin souvenir.

serving up the wurst

chopped sausage in a spicy tomatoey sauce, sprinkled with curry powder

now he has warm ears

Before we returned we had a bit of a look at Checkpoint Charlie - so crowded with tourists here!

lots of info about the Berlin Wall here

Checkpoint Charlie

Also we're in the same street as the Trabi museum - Trabi, or Trabant is a famous East German car made many years ago - they're pretty rubbish but now legendary. You can do a tour of the city in a convoy of them - as long as you follow the lead car you're OK.

stretch limo Trabi

Nate in front of Trabi World

Once into our room at 3pm I snoozed for a bit while Tony tried to catch up on the cycling; Tour de Romandie. Nate and I then went for a walk to the Mall of Berlin for a wee bit of a shop. Nate bought some new Nikes and I bought Tony some new cycling gloves. The weather has been fairly kind today, just cold with some light showers here and there so it's hasn't been a problem getting outside.