Berlin in a weekend

For anyone who has a weekend free and wants to swing through Berlin, I would highly recommend it. Ric and I didn't have much time there, but it's a really easy trip from London and we left pretty late on Sunday, so it felt like a nice, long weekend. Here's a quick recap of what we saw and did!


Arrived on Friday night late (around 11pm) and had a drink at the hotel. That's where the celeb sighting happened, which I took as a sign that we were going to have a great weekend. Unexpectedly got upgraded to the penthouse apartment... which was almost as big as our house. Felt a little empty with just Ric and I wandering around, but now that we're BFF with Liev and Naomi, I'll definitely invite them over to the penthouse next time we're in town.




On Saturday we started off the day with a visit to the Jewish Museum. It was interesting and covered almost the entire history of the religion, not just specific to Germany. We then walked over to Checkpoint Charlie... the spot where the US Army would stop people trying to get from one side to the other.






Then walked by pieces of the Berlin Wall that are still standing. Pretty crazy to think there was a wall dividing the city in half, not too long ago.




We then walked down one of the main streets called Unter den Linden. It wasn't quite as pretty as we remembered, mainly because of all the construction (which is everywhere in Berlin... TONs of work being done).

After lunch a Schlotzsky's(which was just as good as I remembered it), we made our way over to Mitte and wandered back to the penthouse... stopping through a little German Christmas market and doing a tiny bit of shopping. Dinner that night involved TEN courses at a place called Horvath. It was absolutely amazing, but they took their time bringing everything out so we were there for almost four hours... Sunday was just more wandering, down by the river, and around another little street fair. And then, to our surprise, the sun came out! We left for the airport around 4pm, feeling totally walked out, but really content after a great weekend. Here are a few more pics of the city...