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Weather:
80 - Sunny City: Berlin Hotel: Grand Hyatt
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Transport: Lufthansa Air Bus 330-300 - Berlin Bus TXL Line
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- Events of the Day
- Sunshine
awaited landing after a very smooth boarding and flight. An after
work 08:10 PM direct flight to Frankfurt really helped with scheduling.
Flight included dinner - chicken or "surprise" (Lufthansa flight
attendant struggle with English word for pasta with tomato sauce) - and
movies on demand ("Exotic Marigold Hotel", "This Means War", and
"Hunger Games") and some that will never to be seen Stateside.
- Arrival
was at the old Berlin Tegel airport - which was to be closed in June,
2012; however, schedule delays at the new BER - Berlin airport
required additional life in a relic of an airport. After landing
at a remote - no jetway - location, grabbed the backpacks (check in
luggage is evil), deplaned with no paperwork required, received the
infamous passport stamp, and headed for the
shuttle bus to the Berlin Haufbahnhof (Main Berlin train station down
from the hotel). Some of our party decided to leave a polka-dot
tolietry/cosmetic bag on the bus (Which should add a treat for some
Berliner).
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walk from the bus stop to the hotel included the Reichstag building (main Parliament
building), Brandenburg gate, full block sized Jewish Memorial,
Potzdammer Platz Sony Center. After checking in, dinner at restaurant Mesa for
"German tapas" (From goat cheese to noodles to little pork chops) and
relaxation at the roof top Olympus pool and spa. (Allowed for viewing
of the almost full moon). Zeit for schlaff
zimmer.
Tegel Airport
Berlin Main Station
Reichstag
Sony Center-
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