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1 July 2024
Nuremberg Trial site The hotel did an awesome breakfast for EUR11 and to my surprise, it did have some hot eggs and sausages. Here I was thinking that it would be cold continental in Germany. First up this morning was a visit to the site of the Nuremberg Trials. We got there by underground just […]
30 June 2024
Going to the airport I was happy to take public transport (NZD11 or EUR6 per person) to the airport for our midday flight but Kim was keen on an easier option. Last year, the hotel offered us a ride for EUR20 (per car) but this year it was going to be EUR40. So, we decided […]
19 August 2017
While I’m not much of a museum person, I really wanted to go the Pergamon Museum on Museum Island (which is home to several). I had tried pre-booking but there were only afternoon slots left and that didn’t suit me. So we turned up early to avoid the queues. Getting there at 0940, there was […]
18 August 2017
I woke at 0730 and wandered to the nearest supermarket which was inside the station. I got some soya milk (in case my tummy didn’t like dairy in its current state) to go on my muesli. We had a 1000 free walking tour booked from Brandenburg gate. Armed with an all-day Zone AB ticket (EUR7) […]
27 July 2011
I met Nicole for breakfast today; we had studied Thai Masage in Bangkok together and stayed at the some hotel. It was lovely to see her again and the venue was very atmospheric at Mariandl Pension’s cafe called Cafe am Beethovenplatz. It was a nice old building with an outdoor section. I had enough time […]
26 July 2011
After a two-night stay in Downham Market with my brother-in-law, I have an evening flight to Munich for a 22h nightstop. Lufthansa like most good old-fashioned airlines consider any flight connection less than 24h to be a transit (rather than a stopover) and is free-of-charge … anything longer is only permitted on a more expensive […]