Wednesday 12 June 2013

Ich bin ein Berliner

At least that's what I think President Kennedy said.  Apparently it really means I am a small bun, but German grammar makes fools of us all, and his meaning was clear.  Alles klar, as we say here.
We have had an excellent couple of days sightseeing in Berlin, a very interesting place indeed.  As well as all the iconic monuments like the Brandenburg gate, Checkpoint Charlie, the Reichstag (complete with Norman Foster dome) etc we visited an interactive museum about daily  life in East Germany - you could pretend to drive a Trabant, for example, and various remnants of the wall. Like many places we have visited, Berlin is undergoing major reconstruction, we wonder if it is all to do with stimulating the economy or just a drive for continuous improvement.
We are camping at a site technically in Berlin, but practically not - it involves a bus, tram and two trains to reach the city centre. But it is all interesting and travel is cheap - about £5 for a day travel card on any form of public transport.
The site has a lakeside bar - see pic below, where we watched a heron gobble an enormous fish.  Also had pied flycatcher fledge from nest box onto the van!

Weather has been perfect for over a week now, and forecast is good, so we are going to try the Baltic coast - seems very odd heading north to find the sun!

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