Day the Third
- Date
- 2005-06-27 19:57 UTC
- Location
- Berlin, Germany
The tourist day is over, we had brunch near "Checkpoint Charlie" in a Thai slash Sushi (yes, it sounds scary) place, the Thai part was actually good, the sushi was passable (in general there seems to be quite a few sushi places in Berlin, and in the Potsdamer platz [nowadays a business district] sushi was a common lunch)
The actual Checkpoint Charlie / Berlin Wall museum we passed mainly due to sudden invasion of two busloads of American tourists, as expected lots of "soviet" trinkets were sold in the streets, less expected was that a lot of it seemed fake, one would think it would be cheaper to get the real thing.
As for other museums, it seems they're either being renovated or closed on mondays, or both, anyways we got to walk plenty.
Dinner we had in Mexican restaurant slash coctail bar "Dos Amigos" right next to the hotel we've been staying in (Berolina Airport, Radickestrasse 76: 52N26'06.3'', 13E32'44,6''), food was excellent and there was plenty of it, also the coctails were great. The place is open when it happens to be open (though generally in evenings it is)
Now we're packing our stuff and next well be heading southwardish, probably to Check Republic, there are still storms in the south so we'll have to figure out whether we'll head to some other direction next or just brave trough the storms and hope weather is better on the other side of the Alps, in general we were planning on visiting the Ducati factory in Bologna late this week or early in the next but nothing is set to stone...
Tips for travellers
Get a good sized (so that you can actually read it without squinting) colored diagram of the public transportation routes, especially the S- and U-Bahn routes, these trains are a good way to get around
Pay your ticket, the "inspection fee" (or "missing ticket fee", whatever it may be called) is 600EUR and we were checked twice by plainclothes officials, a day pass for AB zones (there is also zone C for the true outskirts of the network) is 5.60EUR and is valid untill 03:00 next day, if you're staying longer there are tourist cards for various periods available.
If travelling by car/bike, and your destination is not right next to some major landmark a street map of the city is a good idea, it also helps you to plan on how to drive to certain places (one-ways, no turn lefts etc are commonplace)
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