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Arrived at the Holiday Inn. Here I stay until Sunday. It just next to the Uber Arena.
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...2e2e940485.jpg https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...ac00e04ad6.jpg https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...d816560a67.jpg https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...b09d7209bd.jpg https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...ec64babab4.jpg https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...ea100f14bd.jpg https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...dfe96fe245.jpg Time to hit the street for dinner. |
I walked more or less around the block of my Hotel.
Some picture from Uber Platz (Square) https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...179abff4b4.jpg https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...5e39a7b2ef.jpg https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...552d5e54fd.jpg https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...d91836b4cd.jpg https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...f89697c8ef.jpg https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...c0b1e95893.jpg Uber Arena in the background. https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...05e75d8958.jpg Local ice hockey team fan store. Ice bears of berlin https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...c6a9a87262.jpg Part of the old wall. https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...aa46e2db61.jpg https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...2e1a0ea8bb.jpg Another brick in the wall or just beyond the Wall? The question of the questions. https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...8290e77854.jpg Some musician playing. Behind the Spree https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...98914b3c83.jpg Some comedy? The ship is also a Hotel https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...e401bce7ae.jpg Berlin yellow submarin eeeh subway on a bridge So done for the day. I need some rest. |
If you get out for dinner again nearby tomorrow, there's a great old East German hunting lodge theme restaurant called Jager & Lustig about a 10 min walk from where you're staying. We were there in February and it was delicious and very filling. Full of locals. Cheers. (I wish you better luck than us - 2/5ths of my party including me had a cold the entire time we visited).
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Thanks for sharing.
i always enjoy my visits to Berlin. Fairly cheap and so much history. |
Originally Posted by GoBob
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If you get out for dinner again nearby tomorrow, there's a great old East German hunting lodge theme restaurant called Jager & Lustig about a 10 min walk from where you're staying. We were there in February and it was delicious and very filling. Full of locals. Cheers. (I wish you better luck than us - 2/5ths of my party including me had a cold the entire time we visited).
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Good morning. I slept not bad. I jusr went over to the mall to grab some breakfast.
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...0db42a0ae4.jpg There is a REWE supermarket around the corner. It is way cheaper than the buffet from the Hotel. https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...088ba9e6ca.jpg And that is what I bought. Some milk, some cheese and some sliced bread. |
Hans im Glück is one of the Frenchaise chains of system gastronomy that have been flooding German cities for many years. It's been around for quite a long time, even if the burger trend is on the decline again. There are much worse ones, even if I am skeptical about this whole monotony.
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Originally Posted by offerendum
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Hans im Glück is one of the Frenchaise chains of system gastronomy that have been flooding German cities for many years. It's been around for quite a long time, even if the burger trend is on the decline again. There are much worse ones, even if I am skeptical about this whole monotony.
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Today was a slow start. First I headed to Alexander Square. There you'll find the Fernsehturm or TV tower.
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...524a76ae34.jpg Railway station https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...fe60055ff1.jpg Park with Neptun fountain https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...8f591b4555.jpg Saint Mary Cathedrale https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...3bbbb89ab9.jpg Worldclock and TV Tower Not far from Alexander Square is GDR or DDR museum. A small but very nice museum. You learn about the history and life in GDR. https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...1f09d7cf06.jpg https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...659eba8181.jpg GDR toys https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...43eb52a9e6.jpg How Berlin was splitted https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...0232f33f0b.jpg Museum is just were the second boat is. The building above is a Radisson Hotel. Museum was intersting but csn get very crowded. Next to the museum is Lustgarten or Pleasure Garden. https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...45613f27b0.jpg https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...8d5c5c8c63.jpg Lustgarten and Old Museum. From there I took the next Bus on line 300 to the Mall of Berlin. Malls have mostly a food court and good to eat lounge. It was already getting to 1pm. https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...c201259264.jpg Beef bowl was tasty. From here the Potsdam Square, Brandenbuger Tor are not far away. |
After lounge it was time to see Brandemburger Tor and Bundestag.
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...03b304682e.jpg Near Potsdam Square there is this line over the street. Here the wall used to be. Many years ago I would stand in the deadly zone. https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...9a82a7f39c.jpg Over to Potsdam Square https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...a559f34555.jpg A small Street Food Festival. Another one is near Kurfürstendamm on the Breitscheid Square I took the S-Bahn now to https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...ea348cacb8.jpg Brandenburger Tor https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...510f3cc460.jpg Street of June 17th and the Siegessäule in the background https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...0a8662e933.jpg Bundestag, houses of parliament https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...b2973577be.jpg Some government building. From here I took Bus line 100 to thr Zoologischer Garten railway station. Buses were packet and was hard to get in. As I waited for the next bus two Trabis showed up. https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...54cc97fe16.jpg Who has ordered them? At the rail station i watched some trains passing by. . https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...908c9cf81c.jpg First an empty stock mobe to Berlin HBf. This will form a train to Poland. https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...cb0230b1b6.jpg As I took this picture an ICE entered the station and is coming from my home city. https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...10289061e9.jpg Another inertnational train. This one is coming from Amsterdam. Hello @WiSK Afterwards I went back to the Hotel. Still undecided where to go for diner. |
One of my regrets is that I never visited Berlin when I was based in Germany in the late 1980s; I could have gone but it was a lot of (as we say in the UK,) faff”. There was paperwork, an official military train, travelling in best uniform, uniform inspections, etc. I just assumed that I wouldn’t be in the military forever and I’d go and take a tour. I’d visited various Inner German Border locations and participated in a 3 day border patrol with an Army unit near Helmstedt (Checkpoint Alpha). Then November 1989 happened.
Still not visited Berlin but if I did, I’d be visiting the GDR museums and East Berlin as a priority. |
I'm so tired from the day I decided to go to the same place as yesterday but a different restaurant. I went to Tony Roma's which is next door to Hans om Glück. I got a table next to a bachelor party. 11 gu,s in one round but they behaved at least yet. The longer the evening the drunk they get. 😁 Was fun.
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...305f720e33.jpg https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...e4fe817e53.jpg https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...55b71b644f.jpg https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...0a2d51709e.jpg https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...5ca5445597.jpg https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...de9f13ff09.jpg I ordered ä Schöfferhofer Weizen and Southwestern Chicken. https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...11a488678f.jpg Was very tasty Next door is a Hägen Dazs. Time for a dessert. https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...0a7e881418.jpg Now I need some rest and find some ideas for tomorrow. |
One thing I found interesting, you can register to visit the dome of the Bundestag and look down into the chamber.
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Just for a bit of then-and-now contrast, here are a couple of pics dating to the 1970s.
The wall was more than a wall in most areas; it was part of a no-man's-land that included wire fences, sand strips (to bog down vehicles) and other barriers. Note the ruined Reichstag in the distance. This was taken from the Ost-West Express train (Hook of Holland to Moscow.) https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...42d8bd9bf9.jpg DDR kids facing the Brandenburg Gate https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...a166cbd96b.jpg |
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