Travelled : 206 kilometres from Schwerin to Berlin
Visited : Berlin (Day 1), Berlin Welcome Card €27 each. (Unlimited public transport and museum entries for 3 days)
Stayed : Wohnmobilepark Berlin (Tegel), all the usual including electricity €21 per night for 3 nights. (Camper Contact) N52.59562 E13.28909
We wake about 4 am and it’s raining steadily, then again about 6 and it’s steady drizzle. By breakfast it hasn’t change and the forecast is for more of the same. We look at the weather forecast at Muritz Lakes and Berlin and Berlin gets the nod. Our original plan was to spend a day on the Muritz Lakes, spending the day walking or cycling in the National Park, but Pam doesn’t like either in the rain so Muritz will need to wait and we pack up and hit the road for Berlin.
In Australia we’re used to the weekly fuel price cycle, in Germany Sunday is cheap diesel day, so we fill up for €1.02 a litre. By the way the supermarkets and nearly everything else other than bars and cafes are closed on Sunday, so it’s do with what you have or go out for dinner.
This picture does not accurately capture the traffic, after driving for an hour, we were suddenly in a huge traffic jam for 30 minutes. Just as quickly it disappears and everyone is doing 130+ except us of course.
Anyway a couple of turns off the autobahn, we arrive at our stellplatz. I had a stellplatz identified in the city, but someone said it was closed and re-checking the data-base it has been tagged as closed, so Tegal it is. Tegal is a small outer suburb of Berlin and as we discoverer a very nice suburb at that. It has a 30 minute rail service to Berlin and a very pretty plaza with lots of bars and restuarants.
Berlin, Germany
We wander into a little takeaway asia restuarant and I discover Berliner Kindl, the local drop. Whilst Pam loves Lidl beer, the Perlenbacher being her favorite at €0.29 a can, she has never actually tried one, she just likes the price. Being Father’s Day I’am authorized to spend €1.50 on a Berliner !!! What a wonderful wife.
Germany
The Brandenburg Tor (Gate) , and the starting point for our walking tour of Berlin. As you can see it’s a cool and cloudy morning, the weather doesn’t improve much until the late afternoon.
The Memorial to the Murdered European Jews, colloquially known as the Holocaust Memorial.
Pam stands in the a small reserve surrounded by East German apartment blocks built back in the 60’s. Hitler’s bunker was 12 metres below Pam’s feet. He and his wife Eva were partially cremated within a few metres of here as well.
A rare piece of GDR propaganda. We visit Hermann Goring’s Luftwaffe Building, one of the few buildings to survive the war. Later the GDR Council Chambers and now the German Tax Office. Anyway the point of the visit is this mural showing the happy people of East Berlin. There is a second memorial nearby to the 256 people killed when a union stop work meeting and protest march on this building was broken up by the Police and Army.
Touristy corner near the Wall. Currywurst appears to be Berlin’s favorite food. Every lunch place has a board out the front with currywurst on top. So for lunch it’s currywurst, so to my surprise I find it’s a sausage cut into pieces about 15cm, simmered in a tomato and curry flavored sauce. Served on a paper bowl, a small bread roll on the side. Some days you think a Galo’s pie would be nice !
Where once stood the Berlin Wall. This double line of bricks criss-crosses the city here and there.
A section of the original wall, it has a barrier and security to stop tourists breaking off pieces with a hammer.
The place known as Check-Point Charlie on the old east-west partition. Funnily enough from all the old movies I remembered it as being at the end of a bridge. But there’s no bridge here.
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