I'm currently cozied up in a Starbucks in Berlin whilst my parents are both napping back in the Hotel room. We've done quite a bit in the past few days and still have quite a lot to accomplish in the next few. My parents finally got to see Copenhagen...well a version of Copenhagen. Over the past 2 1/2 months they have listened to me talk about the cold temperatures and the fact that the sun never shines in Copenhagen. Yet, while they were in the city there wasn't a single cloud, and it was a beautiful 63 degrees. I think they are starting to doubt my version of Copenhagen life.
I took them to all the necessary sites, and we also went to a bunch of the places I hadn't seen yet. We took a tour of Carlsberg Brewery (mainly for the two beers they give you at the end of the tour). We navigated our way to the Little Mermaid, and after making a wrong turn, eventually found our way there. And we went to Freetown Christiania, a little part of Copenhagen that doesn't acknowledge that they are in fact part of Denmark. The main street, pusher street, is know for openly selling pot and hash. Though we didn't have any typical Danish cuisine, unless you count the hotdog stands that we went to for lunch...twice, we did enjoy a great Italian restaurant as well as a Sushi place.
The flight to Berlin was amazingly short. I only got through two articles in Vanity Fair before we were told to prepare for landing. Out luggage was out on the belt 10 minutes after we landed... and 2 minutes after that, after no security check or any other bureaucratic process we were waiting in line to by our bus tickets. Yesterday we meandered through Berlin based on nothing but pure instinct... and what our guide book said... and ended up seeing Hackescher Markt (which is conveniently right behind our hotel) as well as Museum Island which has a beautiful Cathedral as well as 4 museums. For dinner we walked to an area that is known for their authentic German food, and then we quickly realized that we would be much happier with not quite as authentic German food, i.e., no pickled Pork knuckle for me...
Today we embarked on a 4 hour walking tour of Berlin. The weather was less than accommodating, but we made the most of it with only a few complaints. The tour took us to Checkpoint Charlie, we stood over where Hitler's bunker once was, we saw the largest part of the Berlin wall that remains, as well as many other mandatory sites in Berlin. Oh, and our tour guide looked like Matt Damon.
It has already been quite the adventure, but there is much more to come, which means that more blogs will be appearing when I can find reliable internet access. And don't you fret, I'll add pictures to this blog once I get the pictures on my computer!
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