New digs in Berlin
Thursday 5th of July
Job number one today: find new accommodation. After one night in the Berolina Backpackers, we have booked ourselves into a more respectable looking place around the corner. It’s in the same area but at least we will have our own bathroom. The lesson from Berlin is that more, is indeed, more. We are only paying E5 a night more, but there is a world of difference between where we were and where we are. I can officially recommended Artim Hotel, Charlottenburg, Berlin.
I am feeling less smug about the weather today. It is RAINING in Berlin. This is the first time we have had rain (indeed, the first time we have been in temperature below about 28 degrees) since we arrived. I’d go as far as to say that summer in Berlin is more like summer in
Wellington. This morning we did lots of walking and eventually ended up at the Berlin Aquarium- which made Marty very happy. We have also invested in a City Tour card, which we highly recommend. It costs E15 but allows you to travel on all transport around Berlin for a 48 hour period. It also gives you discounts on entry into some of the sites around the city. We have been making a point of riding the train lots so that we feel like we get plenty of value out of our cards J
Job number one today: find new accommodation. After one night in the Berolina Backpackers, we have booked ourselves into a more respectable looking place around the corner. It’s in the same area but at least we will have our own bathroom. The lesson from Berlin is that more, is indeed, more. We are only paying E5 a night more, but there is a world of difference between where we were and where we are. I can officially recommended Artim Hotel, Charlottenburg, Berlin.
I am feeling less smug about the weather today. It is RAINING in Berlin. This is the first time we have had rain (indeed, the first time we have been in temperature below about 28 degrees) since we arrived. I’d go as far as to say that summer in Berlin is more like summer in
Wellington. This morning we did lots of walking and eventually ended up at the Berlin Aquarium- which made Marty very happy. We have also invested in a City Tour card, which we highly recommend. It costs E15 but allows you to travel on all transport around Berlin for a 48 hour period. It also gives you discounts on entry into some of the sites around the city. We have been making a point of riding the train lots so that we feel like we get plenty of value out of our cards JThe coolest thing we saw yesterday was Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin. The original church was mostly destroyed during WWII and the memorial church sits right next to the remains of the original. The memorial church is almost entirely built of coloured glass blocks and has the most amazing effect: 
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