Day 241, 2 March 2013, The Concorde Room, First Class Lounge, London, Heathrow. OH. MY. GOD. Seriously. What a day. Tegel Airport in Berlin needs to be taken out and shot. Flight to London was brilliant once we made it through the multitudes of stumbling blocks and on to the BA plane. First Class Lounge at Terminal 5 (remember - we are doing this on points - and if we can, anyone can. Eventually). We'd just finished lunch in the restaurant (on par with the b...

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...