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  • Carol RakicicTravelerBerlin, Corfu Northern Greece

    Day 1 Sydney to Berlin

    May 12, 2019 in Germany ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C

    Quick trip to the airport with Uber John and Udi. Singapore airlines upper deck and upgrade to full exit row to myself was perfect. Scoot in silence from Singapore was fine though their insistence on giving me roast chicken, gravey and potatoes for breakfast with only water or coke was not endearing. Seems coffee was impossible as I did not pre-order it.Read more

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    Day 2 Berlin with jetlag

    May 13, 2019 in Germany ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C

    Arrived 7:30am in Berlin, tired but as the day went on I became more and more interested in this city. Coffee and scrambled eggs in the sun at a french cafe, then Check Point Charlie, Gendarmenmarkt Concert Hall, french and german doms and then I started to notice the many cafes, bakeries, soup kitchens and organic stores. Sunny and blue skies and max 15degrees but felt warm.
    Went to the Peter Fetcher memorial in my hotel’s street (Zimmerstrasse), the Wall Panorama and Topography of Terror.
    Home dinner.    Read more

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    Day 3 Berlin

    May 14, 2019 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C

    Slept 8 hours last night but only problem was that it was from 7pm till 3am. Had excellent Hotel Select The Wall breakfast at the unheard of hour of 6:30am.
    9am appointment for Reistag glass dome with audio pointing out sights and features of the dome. Then Brandenburg Gate, Hotel Adlon (where Michael Jackson dangled baby off the balcony), memorial to the murdered jews of Europe, Unter den Linden with coffee break at Microsoft Digital Cafe. Then Bebel Platz ( where Nazis burnt the books), tour of every hall in the Koncerthaus (if the sign was in english, who would think the tour would be in german only). Lunch of muligatawny chicken soup at Green Rabbit organic soup and salad cashless restaurant.
    Audio guide of history of german parliament in the German Dom.
    Then the Berlin Wall Museum at Check Point Charlie.    Read more

  • Carol RakicicTravelerBerlin, Corfu Northern Greece

    Day 4 Berlin

    May 15, 2019 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C

    Still waking early so 6:30 breakfast in the hotel again. It was the first day of the 3 day museum pass so went over to the Gemeralderie past Potsdammer Platz. Renaissance and middle ages - Lucas Cranach ( esp Fountain of Youth), Durer, Perugino, Lippi, Caneletto etc all the usual suspects. Special exhibition of Bellini and Mantegna comparing their paintings of similar subjects, both from Padua. Then Decorative Arts Museum with dresses from late 1800s. Left cold by the Sony Centre - was largest construction site in Europe in 1990s and Berlin Mall was standard. So had very tasty bratwurst for lunch from stand on corner Wilhelmstrasse/Zimmerstrasse.
    Spy museum in the afternoon was entertaining and informative.
    Chardonnay in Bar Eleven, then home dinner of proscuitto, sauerkraut, kartofflen and tomatoes.    Read more

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    Day 5 Berlin

    May 16, 2019 in Germany ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C

    Slept in till just after 6 this morning. Take away coffee and grainy seedy roll with the last of the tomatoes and speck.
    It was a rainy half hour walk to my new lodgings at Frederics Hackescher Mkt, then to the impressive Museum Island to Neues Museum for the gold filigree Berlin Hat, famous head of Nefertiti, Xanten bronze. Lunch choices abound round Hackescher Markt area, had excellent salad bowl at mexican Mishba.
    Anne Frank Museum was down graffiti alley and excellent.
    Spot of window shopping, coffee, then Pergammon Museum and Panorama. Islamic Art was impressive and crowded, saw the Ishtar Gate but the star was the market gate of Miletus. There was not much at Miletus, Turkey when i was there, now i know where the remains are. It is the largest piece ever reassembled. 60% is original and it took 6months in 1920s to assemble and it survived WW11 bombing.
    Dinner in german cellar (sausages, sauerkraut (bacon flavoured), potatoes. Interesting chat to local from GDR. Stayed awake to 8pm!    Read more

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    Day 6 Berlin

    May 17, 2019 in Germany ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C

    Walked further into the depths of the east to discover friendly bakery and supermarket. “Activ” roll, tomatoes and a white mozarella in my sunny south facing room for breakfast.
    It was opening day of the Gustave Caillebotte exhibit at the Alte National Gallerie and I was the first in, having it to myself. A few choice Monets, Pissaro, Renoirs and only myself and an english couple in the room. A lone Hodler, Segatini, some Max Lieberman’s including funny dog with sausages across his nose. Then sat in Lustgarten in the sunshine, then to Altes Museum for overdose of greek and roman antiquities before excellent salad lunch at Barcomis Deli.
    Afternoon was Deutsche History Museum - yet another fascinating display. Over to east Berlin TV tower in Alexanderplatz - first crazy busy place yet.
    Home dinner of rocket, tomato, salami, hummus and german white wine.    Read more

  • Carol RakicicTravelerBerlin, Corfu Northern Greece

    Day 7 Berlin

    May 18, 2019 in Germany ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C

    Another sunny breakfast coffee in my quiet apartment over looking the tree filled jewish cemetry.
    It was a sunny warm (low 20’s) Saturday and everyone was out enjoying it in trendy Prenzlauerberg. So pleasant it could almost be french - street food market, loads of cafes serving healthy brunch and nice ambience. Had a prosecco and cassis near the Water Tower ( also used by Nazis).
    Before this walked to Brenauerstrasse where those film clips of people jumping out windows across the wall happened as the sides of houses formed part of the wall. It is the only place where the wall setup is still complete with inner wall, death strip, lights and watch tower. Yet another good Documentation Centre with videos, memorabilia and viewing platform.
    Had the famous CurryWurst at Kannopke Imbiss which has been under a railwaybridge for ever and it was actually very good.
    Home dinner of canard saucisson, rucola, tomato, homus and german weis.    Read more

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    Day 8 Berlin

    May 19, 2019 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C

    Change of pace today with Spree River cruise from East Side Gallery to Charlottenberg, authentic snitzel lunch with glass of Sav Blanc billed as best SB in Germany and probably the world in a beer garden beside the river in Charlottenberg. Walked along shady green paths beside river that were surprisingly pleasant.Read more

  • Carol RakicicTravelerBerlin, Corfu Northern Greece

    Day 9 Berlin

    May 20, 2019 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    Potatoes, sausage and 3 poached eggs at Factory Girls, then the re-constructed old Berlin area (very twee). Afternoon street art tour chiefly in Kreuzberg was fun though the 30 yo made too many Contiki “jokes”. Saw astronaut, pink man, dead animals by rooaarr, a possible banksy and the now blackened wall where the “peeling back” work was but the artist covered it as the block has been sold to developers. We bought beers as proof it is legal to walk the streets drinking - becks lime and mint is first beer I’ve ever been able to drink.
    Very hot in the morning, late arvo thunderstorm and dinner of Haxe at Sophieneck in Gros Hamburgerstrasse.    Read more

  • Carol RakicicTravelerBerlin, Corfu Northern Greece

    Day 10 Berlin

    May 21, 2019 in Greece ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C

    Spent a great day in Potsdam - magnificent palaces galore, goegeous gardens and a nice town with a quaint dutch quarter as well.
    Main attraction is the Schloss SansSouci which was well managed with staggered entry times and helpful audio guide.
    Also went through Bildergalerie (renaissance paintings displayed in hall of yellow and white marble), the Neue Kammern (Red jasper hall and no people), Orangerieschloss (italian palace with all things fake Raphael where had to wear enormous slippers), also tower with views over the gardens and the Chinoiserie. Somewhat tired but walked through the Neue Park to Schloss Cecilienhoff where Stalin, Truman and Churchill basically carved up Germany at the Potsdam Conference after WW11.
    Could have easily spent two days in Potsdam.    Read more

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