Willkommen in Berlin

Our flight left on time and we climbed through the clouds leaving the grey skies of Birmingham for the sunshine at 30,000 feet. After just over 90 minutes, we descended through the now broken clouds to arrive at the Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg „Willy Brandt“ bang on time at 0905 local time.

As a friendly member of the Bundespolizei stamped our passports, I got a reply in English to my (obviously) accented „Guten Tag“ but H got a reply „auf Deutsch“!

The Berlin public transport system helpfully provided no fewer than 3 different modes of rail-based transportation to speed us to just round the corner from our hotel: Bahn, S-Bahn and Tram.

We received a very friendly „Wilkommen“ at the hotel, which included directions to the nearest Cross of Nails from Coventry, having seen our home address. You’ll have to see whether we manage to find it.

Despite our early check-in, we were able to access our room immediately, which was very welcome, beating our expectations that we’d just be able to drop our bags off.Read more