A Trip to Berlin - Day 5

 

The friends who were so generous to let them stay in their house the first four days of our trip had other obligations like work and such they had to get back to, so on day 5 we moved to a place called Easy Lodges.

It turned out to be a sort of camping, but with tiny lodges instead of tents!

We got a lodge with two beds and one small shelf thing.

There was a bathroom and showers in the main building. 

The main building also had a small kitchen and a room where you could sit and relax, but we didn't use those. All in all our tiny lodge was a great place to sleep, rest, and store our luggage.

Once settled in the tiny lodge we went to Unter den Linden for some souvenir shopping and sightseeing.

And we walked to the Brandenburger Tor of course.

I'm not sure I agree with this bear, but my owner did!

Next we walked to the Gedarmenmarkt to see the Deutscher Dom. 

Warning: picture spam coming up below.

But wait!

There was another Dom on the other side of the Gadarmenmarkt!

The Französischer Dom. Seems like the Germans and the French both wanted their own church.

On our way over to the Französischer Dom I spotted a lion!

I spotted a sign for a restaurant that had come up with a punny name that was appropriate for being next to a church for Huguenots. (Hugenotten in German)

I think these plaques inside the Französischer Dom tell the story of the Huguenots.

This woman clearly was tired of all this shit!

Next we went back to our tiny lodge to rest and read, because it was still very heatwavy.

There was a crow (Corvus Cornix) walking around at the camp ground looking for snacks!

We saw him and his friends a lot the next few days.

Next: Dinosaurs

A Trip to Berlin - Day 3 & 4

 

The heat kept waving so we took it easy for a large part of day three as well.

In the afternoon we went to an expo with pictures by Corbijn, but we forgot to take pictures of our own there.

Afterwards we had a drink somewhere, did some sightseeing while walking to our next destination and had ice cream.

Cool building.

We had dinner at a Greek restaurant.

The food was delicious!

Random buildings I spotted on the way home.

On day 4 we were kind of floored by the heat, so we took it very easy most of the day. 

We went for breakfast and grocery shopping and then read until the end of the afternoon.

Then we took an S-train to meet up with out friends for dinner at a Taco restaurant.

(My owner had evil fries, so I didn't take a picture)

We then walked to our next destination.

I stopped to take pictures of this church.

We went to a concert!

This is CocoRosie.

They were very cool!

Next: Tiny lodge and more

A Trip to Berlin - Day 1 & 2

 

We went for a loooong bus ride at the end of June.

It was just during the heatwave, but luckily we traveled at night.

After 8 hours we arrived in Berlin!

We took an S-train from the bus station to the house of friends. They had invited us to stay with them a few days. We then rested from the long trip for most of the day.

We wanted to visit a biergarten (beer garden) in the afternoon, but it was closed for a private party.

We ended up on the terrace of a Korean restaurant.

They had yummy cocktails.

We decided to get something to eat as well.

I had a kind of Kimchi soup.

It was delicious!

On our second day we started with a lovely breakfast.

On our walk back from the breakfast place to the house of our friends I spotted a weird statue of cats worshiping or sacrificing an owl...

We stayed indoors for the warmest part of the day and played games.

Then we went to the biergarten for a second try.

I spotted this colorful window.

It was still really warm, so we took it easy and enjoyed the sights.

Then we reached the biergarten and... it was closed because of the heat!

Outrageous!

We then called another biergarten to ask if they were open.

Luckily they were, so we went over there instead.

All's well that ends with a piggy getting a nice cool drink!

Next: More adventures in Berlin

Gilbert - An Update with a Stamp!

I'm still around!

We haven't been on big adventures, but I did do fun stuff.

Like eating poffertjes!

We went into town a couple of times, and I had a really delicious beer one of those times!

I got to sail on a pirate ship!

And recently we got a stamp!

Now let me give you some backstory.

As you know Sullivan is still reading and reviewing, and we have many books.

A while ago Sullivan saw someone complain online about people putting personal stamps in their books (you know: the books they own, that are theirs) because it was annoying for other people if those books ever got sold secondhand...

Now Sullivan is contrary enough to stamp all his books just to annoy someone, but he also thought that the idea of a personal stamp for our books was actually a really cool idea!

So guess what our owner's Other Half made for us?

Yes, that's based on Sullivan's grumpy sparkling personality.

Isn't it cool?!

Time to tamp our books!

We ordered some more ink pads, so once those arrive we can stamp the books in other colors as well.