Squirrel!

For a moment today Sophie and I turned into the dog from the movie Up.  Squirrel!  We walked up to the Charlottenburg palace this morning, to see the grounds and have lunch there.  I don't know about the rest of the palace, but the grounds really were beautiful.  We had our lunch lying on the grass by the lake, which it turns out we weren't supposed to.  It wasn't very clear where you were and weren't allowed on the grass, strange for the Germans.  After our lunch, and cake, we located the S-bahn station to make our way back into town.  Thankfully we also passed a post box so I could post the next round of postcards, instead of having to restamp them like I did with the ones from Barcelona (which is why, those of you who got them, they had two stamps). 

The rest of the afternoon wasn't quite so successful.  We headed to one of the main streets because there was an artist there Sophie wanted to see, but when we located the building there was no sign of his name anywhere on the list outside.  So on to the Topography of terror we went, which we had substituted for the Stasi museum because it was a long way out and we didn't know if we'd have time to get there and the terror place was free.  Unfortunately I had assumed it was East/West germany based, but it was Nazi based, which we've already seen quite a bit of here, so we didn't spend long there.  Instead we fell back on the good ol' fav, we ended up in Tiergarten reading.  Killing time till it was late enough to go and find a beer at a place Eugen recommended to me.  Again we couldn't find it, I had forgotten to write down the street address or the name of the place so we couldn't even ask anyone.  We found a nice bar on a corner though and got our beer.  Sophie had the Berliner Pilsner, which I tried last night, a really nice beer, surprisingly light though for a German beer.  I tried something I can't remember the name of, mainly because it claimed to be brewed locally.

For dinner we ended up where we ate last night.  Where the food was very good, and in large portions, and cheap.  And where the restaurant also had the advantage of being 5 minutes from the hostel.  I also tried the Awa...nope forgotten the German name for it, but its this thing that keeps popping up on their menus, where they mix beer with sprite.  It was very drinkable which was a nice surprise.

I feel like I've been very unentertaining tonight.  I apologise for that, I'm very sleepy.  We've got to get all packed up tonight because we need to be out of here at 7 am tomorrow so we can get to the bus on time.  Not the best start to a birthday ever, but with a nice dinner to look forward to in Prague I'm sure it will improve.