Thursday morning was a grey and drizzly Berlin day. We were determined to show Irene the wall. Michele used Google maps to plot our way to the open air museum, finding a shortcut through a very historic cemetery which was affected by the wall’s construction.

The memorial at Gartenstraße explained the history in German & English through text, audio and video. The bleak weather added to the solemn atmosphere.

We walked up to Bernauerstraße and bravely decided to tackle the Ubahn…which actually was not too hard to work out. Only two stations to Alexanderplatz and then it was lunch time. We dined at a restaurant called Carambar, where Michele had spaghetti and Teresa & Irene shared the “capital dish”, which consisted of typical German sausages, potato and meatballs. The service was very good and our waiter was very good looking. Lunch was over and it was now time to shop! Our 22kg baggage limit was now in the past. We hit TKMaxx with avengence and some good purchases were made.

With our new found confidence in the Ubahn, we caught the train back to Rosenthaler, dropped our shopping into our apartment and went across the road for one of our favourite bloody Marys. Michele was obliged to report back on the red wine that she had purchased the day before so, afterwards, we just had to go and visit Frieda and Fifty again.

We then explored an area that was recommended to us for dinner but found it to be full of retail rather than restaurants. So we made our way back to where our apartment was to try and find somewhere to eat. We found that it is very hard to locate traditional German food in the German capital. After wandering around the wet streets and traversing the five-way intersection we settled on a Vietnamese restaurant. Here Michele & Teresa order beef Pho soup but Irene won out with her crispy duck dish. Our stomachs filled, we retired to our room to rest up in preparation for our next adventure. We enjoyed watching Avatar in German as we relaxed in our room. Tomorrow, Leipzig. Gute nacht!