DAY 1
Erika learned pretty quickly that she is not well versed in the German language and doesn't expect to be by the end of these 3 days.
We hopped onto a bus, got directions from guys sitting behind us (yes, we got on a bus not really knowing where we were going), transferred to a train and made it to PLUS Berlin (right before Erika tried to open a large, old, wooden, locked door that was right next to the automatic sliding glass doors that we actually the entrance to the hostel). We had to wait before we could go to our room but it was worth it, we got upgraded to a hotel room (this place is both a hostel and a hotel). We settled in for a few minutes then headed downstairs to find out where the best shopping was.
We were headed just around the corner to an area filled with restaurants and boutiques. After sitting down for a bite to eat and a few hot to warm up we were on a mission to shop. We HAD to buy shoes because we both realized that we brought nothing appropriate to wear out in 15 degree weather other than running shoes.
After a tiring afternoon of shopping we hyped ourselves up to go down to the hotel bar. We met a few friends and it didn't take long before we were on a dancefloor.
DAY 2
Sightseeing was the plan for today, until we ended up on the biggest shopping street in Berlin. We did get to walk along the longest stretch left of the Berlin Wall, stroll past parliament, see the world clock and wonder around Checkpoint Charlie.
We went to an area referred to as the "New York" of Berlin to sit down for dinner. We lounged outside at a table with strangers until dark sipping wine.
Tonight ended up being a dud. There wasn't much going on in the hotel bar and we lost the motivation to get out there on our own in the cold!
DAY 3
Rain. We've been so spoiled with beautiful weather (with the exception of London, but what else could we expect) this whole trip so we can't really complain, it's only sprinkling.
Sightseeing was the plan again for today and we were sticking to it! We were headed directly to the Jewish War Memorial. We wandered through the tall (and small) cement blocks then down to the exhibition that lays under the memorial. We toured through the exhibition taken aback by how personal it really was.
We were hoping to go to the top of the glass domed parliament building but upon arrival found out that tickets had to be booked a few days ahead of time online. So...we went back to "New York" to shop! Much to our dismay there was a fall festival going on that filled the streets with screaming children (not much laughter was left in them, it was the end of the day). We shopped some more, not that we have anymore room in our bags, then got on the metro back to the hostel.
We thought it might be nice to try out the hotel bar/restaurant for dinner and were pleasantly surprised when the food was delicious and there were lots of people around! Who would have thought that it would be busy at 8:00 p.m. vs. the 12:00 a.m. that we had been arriving at nights prior. We ate, drank and met some more Aussies until we put ourselves to bed with only 3 hours to sleep before having to wake up for our last within Europe flight!!!
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