Wednesday, September 26, 2007

DAY 7 BERLIN / POTSDAM

Having breakfast at Henriette’s home and then we headed to Postdam today. I think the train/ tram/ subway system is strange in Germany coz anyone can go to the platform without buying the ticket. Yesterday we bought one day pass but we realized no one would check us so today we didn’t buy the train and train ticket. We took the subway and tram for FREE :) Luckily no one checked us, even if someone checked us, we could pretend we can’t speak English!! An advantage for being a tourist! :P




We didn’t have any plans so when we arrived Potsdam, we just took any tram and had a free tram city tour. We went to Schloss Sanssouci and walked around the Park Sanssouci. Sanssouci is the former summer palace of the King of Prussia.



The Park is so huge! It took us few hours to walk around there!! I think Potsdam is nice. It’s so different with Berlin. Berlin is more like a city with modern architectures. The buildings in Potsdam is very cute and with unique cultural landscapes. The air in Potsdam is even fresher than Berlin!!




Afterwards we went back to Berlin in the evening and went to Warschauer. We looked for a bar to have a drink. Henriette told us there are lots of bars there. Unfortunately it was still early, some of the bars were not opened yet. We just picked one and had a bottle of beer there.

Then we went back to Schiöneweide and then went to supermarket to buy some sausages and chocolates. Henriette is a vegetarian so we didn’t eat much meat at her place. We bought some sausages and ate it right away :P




We went back to Henriette’s home at around 8pm. She made us some potatoes for dinner. She ate few sliced of bread only!! Henriette told us they usually eat big lunch and light dinner. It’s very different with Hong Kong!

After dinner, we started to pack our stuff. These few days we bought a lot of stuff. My luggage is so darn heavy!! We went to bed at around 11pm, kinda strange coz I never sleep so early in Hong Kong. No night life, no meat, not much drinking in Berlin! Wow!!! Healthy!! :D

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