Berlin Day 2: Walkabout

3rd October 2009

Second day in Berlin kicked off with a very good breakfast in the hotel. Just to list off the top of my head:
- bacon, sausages, meatballs, eggs
- breads, rolls, pastries
- fruits, yogurt, cereal
- salad, cheese, cold cuts
- several types of coffee and tea
- jams, preserves, spreads

Definitely a breakfast worth waking up for. Oh yea.

Today is the 3rd of October, The Day of German Unity. It commemorates the anniversary of German reunification in 1990 and is a public holiday! People were out and about, families with their kids and pets. Shops are closed, museums are opened, the streets are filled with people. This year, the Giants came and we saw the Little Giantess in Alexanderplatz on her way to meet Big Giant at Bradenburg Gate.
Apart from walking, we took the U-Bahn and the S-Bahn a lot. Day-passes are great, they get you on not only trains, but buses and trams too. Zoologischer Garden is one of my favourite stops as they have this really nice motives of animals on the tiled walls.

Somehow or other, while Zul Saadon Mr Country Director was looking for open shopping outlets, we ended up in Kurfürstendamm where the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church is located.

As I've said it before, all shops were closed for the public holiday so in the end Mr Country Director had to shop in the Hauptbahnhof while Lawson and I ended up food hunting around that place. There's a massive mechanical rocking-rolling horse outside of the station though.

It's been a long time since I last had Hot Chili Chocolate, and in all honesty, it's one of the best beverages to have in a place with weather like this. I know it sounds gross, but really, it's far from that. And it's not such an odd thing to begin with. The one in Balzac Coffee in Invalidenstraße, just a very short walk from the hotel, is delish!

Owh, and that night I had a McBabi in McKers!!! Oh pork in a burger, you have made my life complete! ♥


Ich liebe Berlin,