The Perfect End To Germany
Posted by ScarlettMay 22nd, 2009 | No Comments
Tonight we finished Germany in the best way possible – completely drunk with a group of random strangers! Could there be a better way to say goodbye to the country that drinks more beer than any others? I think not 
Why Not Germany?!?!
Posted by ScarlettMay 21st, 2009 | 1 Comment
When we were planning our trip, a few of our friends discussed the possibility of meeting up with us in May, but when we told them our routing would put us in Germany in May, they all responded with the same “well, Germany was not on the top of my list of places to go to…” and they all decided not to meet up with us in May. I can’t say I blame them, since Germany wasn’t on the top of my list of countries to visit either, but as we finish up our time in Germany, I have to say I’ve changed my mind and I think Germany should be on the top of more people’s lists! The sights and history have been interesting, the people are serious looking but friendly, almost everyone speaks English so there’s hardly any communication barrier, and the food has been consistently good. Germany has surprisingly become one of my favourite countries visited so far!
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…
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