Düsseldorf, Why Did We Bother?
Posted by ScarlettMay 20th, 2009 | 3 Comments
Hindsight is always 20/20, and in hindsight, we should have just skipped Düsseldorf, Germany! Paul had added it to our itinerary after reading somewhere that it was a nice city and the “fashion capital” of Germany, but neither of us found it particularly worth seeing. The coolest thing we saw was the door knocker in the picture above and in total we only took 15 pictures today! 
Sushi Attempt #3
Posted by ScarlettMay 18th, 2009 | No CommentsAfter Miniatur Wunderland, we walked around the area by the Port of Hamburg since it was nearby, then cut back into the center of town to find somewhere to eat dinner. We wandered onto a street named Colonnaden where there were a number of restaurants and debated between a German restaurant and the all-you-can-eat sushi place next to it. My sushi craving won, and Paul agreed to give sushi one more try, but I think this may be our final sushi attempt in Europe! The reality is, you can only expect so much in terms of quality for all-you-can eat sushi, even if it’s 16.90 euros per person. At home we can get a pretty good amount of great quality sushi for what that converts into in Canadian dollars, so even though the sushi wasn’t that bad, we’ve come to the conclusion that we just won’t find high quality sushi in Europe so we won’t waste any more money on it! We’ll stick to other types of food which are cheaper and better and I’ll get my sushi-fill when I’m back home again 
Miniatur Wunderland
Posted by ScarlettMay 18th, 2009 | 1 Comment
After another unexciting travel day to get to Hamburg yesterday, we walked around the town a bit but found that, compared to Berlin, Hamburg is rather small and unexciting. It’s a nice town and Hamburgers (that’s really what the people of Hamburg are called!) are quite friendly and helpful (the staff at the Ibis we’re staying at are by far the nicest of any Ibis we’ve been to thus far), but none of the general sights really appealed to us, so we decided to do something a bit different today and spent the day at a place called Miniature Wunderland instead of walking around sightseeing. This turned out to be one of the coolest things we’ve done so far and if you ever travel to Germany, make sure you go to Hamburg to check out Minature Wunderland – it will amaze you!!!
A Day Of Thought Provoking History
Posted by ScarlettMay 16th, 2009 | No Comments
Today for our last day in Berlin, we headed out for one last dose of history, starting with the East Side Gallery of the Berlin Wall. The East Side Gallery is a 1.3km long section of the wall which was covered with paintings by artists from all over the world after the wall was taken down, turning it into a international memorial for freedom. A lot of those paintings have been destroyed by erosion, graffiti, and vandalism, but there is a major restoration project happening this year, in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the “Fall of the Wall”. At the time we saw it, not much of the restoration had been complete, but the paintings we did see were interesting and the East Side Gallery was definitely worth a visit!
Bagels Sights And Shopping
Posted by ScarlettMay 15th, 2009 | No Comments
Following a recommendation I found on the Internet, we started today by eating at Salomon Bagels in the shopping center at Potsdamer Platz. Back home we’re both a fan of bagels, but I don’t think we’ve ever had a proper Jewish bagel (they are a traditional Jewish food) and I had read that Salomon Bagels was a good place to get a traditional-style bagel. They were one of Berlin’s first bagel stores (I think it’s now a franchise chain with multiple locations) and the Potsdamer Platz location isn’t the original, but it was convenient for us because our sightseeing plans for today concentrated on this area.
Thursday Night @ Museum Island
Posted by ScarlettMay 14th, 2009 | No Comments
Similar to Paris’ free museum Sunday, Berlin offers free admission to many museums on Thursday evenings (but it’s every week, not just once a month), so we headed to Museum Island tonight when Paul was able to get away from work for a bit. We had initially planned to just go to the Pergamon Museum to see the Ishtar Gate, but since we finished with it pretty quickly, we managed to squeeze in a visit to the Altes museum to see the Bust of Queen Nefertiti as well, which was a nice bonus
Shopping At KaDeWe
Posted by ScarlettMay 14th, 2009 | 6 CommentsAfter a rather full day at the zoo yesterday, we decided to take it easy today and just do some browsing at KaDeWe, the second largest department store in Europe after Harrods in London. It’s definitely the largest department store I’ve ever been in, with a selection of items that would fulfill almost any shopper’s needs, ranging from clothing to gourmet grocery items. If I lived here KaDeWe would definitely be my shopping haven!
A Day @ The Berlin Zoo
Posted by ScarlettMay 13th, 2009 | No Comments
Before this year, I had never heard of the Berlin zoo, even though it is the most internationally well known zoo in Germany and has the most comprehensive collection of species in the world. This past April, however, I like many others on YouTube, became familiar with the Berlin zoo because of a crazy lady who jumped into the polar bear enclosure. Having heard about the crazy lady and the polar bear named Knut she was trying to get close to, this was a zoo I really wanted to see and this morning we set off to spend a day at the zoo…
First Day Out In Berlin
Posted by ScarlettMay 12th, 2009 | No Comments
After another long travel day (which went from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.) we got to Berlin, the capital of Germany, yesterday, but didn’t do anything after checking into the hotel because it it was so late. Today we headed out to Alexanderplatz, a large sqaure in the Mitte (city center) district of Berlin, where we tried some German schnitzel and went to the Berliner dom, an impressive Baroque style cathedral near Museum Island. Not an especially exciting first day in Berlin, but it was nice and relaxing
Hofbräuhaus To End Munich :)
Posted by ScarlettMay 10th, 2009 | 2 Comments
After spending some time at the hotel making phone calls home to wish our moms a happy mothers day, we headed out to try the world’s most famous beer hall, Hofbräuhaus, for our last meal in Munich. We’re both in agreement that this was the best possible way to finish off our time in our first German city – the food was excellent, the beer was amazing (and back home, I never drink beer!), and the atmosphere was one of a kind. It’s no wonder this place runs second only to Oktoberfest as a tourist icon of Munich!
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