After many weeks, we have finally gotten to the capital!
We had a midday direct train to Berlin today, and it was back to work again for Alina (it being Monday and all), so we didn’t rush about too much today. We still got up before 9. We had some breakfast before finishing up reorganizing and repacking Brandon’s suitcase (I had gotten mine in order last night), and then we had lots of time to chill. We left Alina and Peter’s around 11. We wished Alicia a fun time on her upcoming trip to Hastings, UK. She doesn’t leave until the end of the week, but she will still be away when we come back from this little tour….We took the Straßenbahn to Bochum Hauptbahnhof where we were to catch our ICE to Berlin Hauptbahnhof. Since we were *intentionally* early, we grabbed some sandwiches to eat on the train, as well as a small snack. Then. We just had to wait for the train. The train to Berlin was another one listed by Deutschebahn as “Exceptionally High Demand,” so Brandon reserved us seats. That ended up being good for us and unfortunate for some other people as there was a couple about our age in the seats we reserved when the train rolled in. Brandon showed them our reservation and they moved (I think they found unreserved seats not too far down from where they had been), but we felt bad. Anyhow, the ride itself was relatively uneventful. We did get delayed within the last two or three stops before Berlin, so we didn’t roll in until about 30 minutes after we were scheduled. There’s a particular reason we don’t tend to schedule anything specific on travel days…. From the station, we hopped on another regional train that took us towards the zoo, and from there we took a bus towards our hotel. We are at the Hotel Berlin, which is quite big! It’s very nice, and our room has some very cool vintage furniture pieces! Because it was close to dinner time, we basically dropped our things and hopped back on transit to go get food. We headed to the Sony Center in Potsdamer Platz, which has a VERY BIG Sony store. It was closing within an hour of us getting there, so we didn’t look around too much today. Also, only the ground level floor was open; they had a rope across the stairs going to the other floors (not sure why *shrugs*). By this point, I was very hungry, so we walked across the plaza to a restaurant called Corroboree. It’s an Australian restaurant Brandon had been at in 2010, leading to his first encounter with kangaroo meat. He ordered the kangaroo steak and I had a burger that was a combination of kangaroo and beef. Both were EXQUISITE! I was so glad to be able to get there! Once we finished dinner, we wandered around a shop next to the film museum, which we will be exploring another day. We found some cute souvenirs :) After that, we headed back to the hotel to chill. Tomorrow, we’re going into the city to explore the major tourist spots, including some of the WWII spectacles. Thanks for continuing to follow along! Enjoy the photos!!
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