2019 -- Germany and More
Germany & More Trip Recap Day 1 – Saturday June 22 / Sunday June 23 Our red-eye flight to Berlin was uneventful. We arrived a bit short on sleep. <R – I was disappointed that I never saw Greenland or Iceland from the port side of the aircraft, and England / Scotland was covered by clouds.> We took a taxi to our hotel, but it was too early to check in to our room. We walked up to the Charlottenburg Palace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlottenburg_Palace Charlottenburg Palace to meet Matt & Marion (German friends who stayed with us in NJ last year) for a picnic in adjacent park, about a 40-minute stroll. Matt and Marion brought the lunch, and it was a delight of fresh bread, interesting cheeses, cantaloupe, liverwurst, trout, hard boiled eggs, and fennel salad. A few highlights from our morning ramble: - noticing what nice bike lanes they have, between the parked cars and the pedestrian traffic - noticing how many unleas...