Monday - Warmer and Lighter

We knew the temperature would be 10 degrees warmer, and tomorrow will be even 10 degrees warmer than today. We sat outside at our now favorite breakfast place. Along with coffee milk Karin had milch rice with berries and a delicious pastry with almond paste and I ate a pasta salad with veggies.

Satisfied we began our journey to a local post office to mail our book of family photos to Manfred. We discovered a new part of Prenzlauerberg in the process, and walking back to the U Bahn we discovered a post office located closer to our hotel than we knew. We found these two post offices located in the back of small stores. They sell snacks and breakfast beverages in the front of the store. Nevertheless, the book is on its way to Manfred from a city much closer than Pasadena.

We felt relieved that this disappointing chapter was behind us. We walked our usual walk to the nearby U Bahn. This trip was to the Zoo station. Across the street stands the remains of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. We entered and finished research on the memorial to the victims of the December, 2016 Christmas Market bombing.

With these two tasks completed we decided to ride the S  Bahn and see more of the city from above ground.  We rode through suburbs and the large forest, Grünewald to the neighboring city of Potsdam. We did not leave the platform, rather we took the S Bahn back to Berlin. At one station we changed to another line and saw the living spaces change from single family homes to apartment buildings constructed close to each other.

We got out at the Luftbrücke Platz. Here is a memorial to the Britush, French, and Americans who died flying in supplies to the West Berliners June, 1948 through May, 1949. A lovely park faces the memorial, and the names of those we ho lost their lives are engraved at the base of the memorial. It is called a fork, for its top has three bent prong like fingers bending into the air.

We were hungry for potato pancakes. Karin had researched a placed near the air lift memorial.  We found it......closed, apparently permanently.  We made the decision to return to our hotel and cool off next. And search for German food after that. 

The neighborhood where our hotel is located has many cafes and restaurants, and they are from other countries.  Coffee houses and beer and wine cafes also abound. We returned to Prater Beer Garden where we ate good German food earlier. The beer garden had a limited offering of sausages, Brötchen, potato salad, fries, and beer, wine, and other cool drinks to order and bring to a picnic table in the central area. We had planned to eat at the beer garden restaurant until we learned it was closed today. 

A kind wait person told us about a nearby German restaurant and gave us directions. We found it and enjoyed Rotkohl, potato dumplings and beef goulash plus an herbal lemonade.  Karin ate meatballs, Klopse, and boiled potatoes, and beet and carrot salad. She drank a Berliner Weisse she also ate a dark chocolate and raspberry ice cream cone on the way back to the hotel.

Over seventeen thousand steps today and the need to pack to meet Lufthansa weight requirements our evening ended before dark. Now it is also the time to figure out how we will get to the airport hotel where we hope to leave our luggage and to plan the rest of the day visiting the Free University and Studentendorf where I studied and lived 1959-60.

Gute Nacht,  Susan 


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