Day 4. Checkpoint Charlie, and more sightseeing
Our final day in Berlin, so after breakfast we checked out of our hotel but left our luggage to collect later in the day. Then it was on the train to Kreuzberg where we walked for about 15 minutes to...
View ArticleDay 3. Potsdam, Sansouci Palace and Tiergarten
Another lovely sunny morning. On finishing our breakfast our plan this morning firstly was to inspect the largest remaining stretch of the Berlin Wall, this was located near the ornate bridge beside...
View ArticleDay 2. An afternoon at Charlottenburg Palace and Spandau
After a short lunch stop we boarded a train from Berlin's Hauptbahnhof to Charlottesburg, an affluent suburb of Berlin where the beautiful Charlottenburg Palace is located. A walk along wide, tree...
View ArticleDay 2. Reichstag Dome and the Brandenburg Tor
We had breakfast at 7.45 am as we had pre booked a visit on-line to the Dome of the Reichstag building at 10.30 am. The hotel's restaurant was attractively decorated and smoked salmon, scrambled eggs...
View ArticleDay 1. London Heathrow to Berlin
We had spent the night at the Travelodge, Heathrow Central as our flight was one of the first of the morning to depart Heathrow. We had originally booked our outbound flight with Germanwings, however,...
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