Today John headed off for a technology museum and Fan, Ben and myself decided to get a Berlin tour bus to visit the ‘Staastlche’ Museum, one that Joy and Garry had visited and recommended. We checked that this museum would be on the Yellow Berlin Bus route and she gave us a kind of cryptic yes. As the first bus didn’t arrive until after 10am we went for a short walk around the area and found a very nice, quiet church. We boarded our city bus and then tried ...

The train pulled into Berlin around 7:20am and we emerged to some pretty miserable weather. It was actually drizzling. We shared two taxis and arrived at our hotel only to be told that we were not able to check in until probably 3pm. We could leave our bags and get breakfast at the hotel which we promptly did. After breakfast Fran was still not feeling well so she and Charlie went to see what they could for an earlier check in and the rest of us went walking acr...