Early tomorrow morning we are off to Berlin, so unless something crazy and exciting happens you probably won't see another post until at least Monday night. Berlin is roughly 225 miles as the crow flies, but since traveling by road would first take us due west and then straight south, it sounds like we are first hopping on a ferry to Rostok or something and then getting on a bus to Berlin.
We should arrive in Berlin around 5 o'clock at night and have free run of the city at that point. We have a walking tour of the city that takes roughly five hours and finishes in the mid afternoon. From what I can tell we are going to visit the Reichstag (Germany's Parliament Building), the Führerbunker (Hitler's bunker), the Berlin Wall, Checkpoint Charlie, and what I'm guessing is the SS-Hauptamt (the former S.S. Headquarters). After we are done with the places-where-horrible-things-have-happened-in-Berlin's-history tour, it's off to dinner at Al Hamra, an Arabic restaurant in Berlin. And after that, it's off for a Berlin pub crawl because if there's one thing I need before a ten hour bus/ferry ride is a hangover.
We're off Sunday morning, but on the way back we continue our Tour Tuetonic by visiting the concentration camp Sachsenhausen, located just outside of Berlin. Then we get to eat at McDonald's, another traditional German restaurant, before heading home. I'm sure I'll have a lot to post when I get back.
Auf Wiedersehen!
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I ate at McDonald's today. First time in a long time. People in my group are calling it the American Embassy. Ay ay ay.
Have fun in Berlin!
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