Day 240, 1 March 2013, Berlin, Germany. Bernauer Strasse section of the Berlin Wall, Reconciliation Chapel, The Death Strip. We had a slow, relaxed start - slept in, packed for tomorrow's flight and eventually emerged, blinking like moles, into bright sunshine. It's been weeks since we've seen anything like it. We think it was sunshine. Otherwise there was a massive glowing orb in a stunning blue sky. Might have been a UFO. The section of the Wall at Berna...

Day 239, 28 February 2013. Berlin, Germany. Or should we say MUSEUM DAY!!! To have so many world class collections at our fingertips was a treat. And we would have felt guilty if we'd not had a jolly good crack at them whilst still free with our Museum Pass. So off we went. We really got involved in the public transport today - S-Bahn (State/City trains or "Up" trains), U-Bahn (Underground or Metro trains. That sometimes are above ground.) and of course, Sh...

Day 238, 27 February 2013, Berlin, Germany. We started out the day with a bus trip on one of those hop on/hop off double deckers that have sprouted like mushrooms across the world. Turns out, rather like Paris, this was more like a hop on, have random 10 minute stop, drive through uninteresting neighbourhoods, have random 15 minute stop, drive past some embassies, put up with guide's woeful English, then hop off seething at two hours of your life you're never g...

Day 237, 26 February 2013, Berlin, Germany. Walking tour. We started out at 10.30 am thinking that the estimated 4 hours was highly unlikely - as it turned out, it took over 5 hours to see everything and have many and varied heated discussions amongst the members of the group and our great guide from Insidertours - Tarek. We started out at Hackescher Markt having successfully figured out how to get there in about 5 minutes flat after leaving the hotel a bit lat...

Day 236, 25 February 2013, Krakow to Warsaw and on to Berlin. Travel Day indeed. We left the hotel smack on time (albeit not actually awake) at 4.15 am - onto the train at 4.30 and 25 minutes to warm up prior to departure at 4.55 am. We were out of luck on the warming up as the train was freezing - but we snuggled down for a snooze and eventually pulled into Warsaw Centralna at 8.15 am - right on time. We explored the station, bought postcards, had a coffee a...